A Data-centric Network Architecture for Service Optimization and Data Sharing

In a hyper-connected intelligent society, data is at the core of businesses. However, currently there is no platform that optimizes the data lifecycle which involves collection, processing, and utilization of data. The existing practice is application specific and based on individual software. By having monolithic characteristics for processing and sharing data, we encounter a limit in the development of applications and observe network bandwidth inefficiency. On the other hand, in current data sharing and utilization procedures, data is being collected vertically, as in an application-domain silo; it drastically increases the overhead in processing data in terms of utilization and sharing. In this paper, we propose Data-centric Network Architecture, a new network design for the future applications that require optimized executions and active data sharing amongst application domains. We believe Data-centric Network Architecture will serve as a useful common platform for creating new businesses and values in a hyper-connected society.