Enhanced In-Network Capabilities of Information Centric Networks for Emerging IoT Applications

Although Information Centric Networking (ICN) has been identified as promising candidate for the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, the emerging of various IoT use cases poses great challenges to the ICN architecture. The new characteristics of IoT data and clients' IoT data retrieval require the ICN infrastructure to be more intelligent and advanced capabilities. This paper proposes enhanced in-network functionalities of ICN routers, which are smart in-network caching, context-aware forwarding, in-network data discovery, in-network semantics mashup and reasoning, in-network data analytics, service delegation and charging enforcement. The paper illustrates the proposed enhanced in-network capabilities of ICN routers by two use cases in smart cities. The initial results verify that the proposed enhanced in-network capabilities can provide better performances for emerging IoT applications.