A Flat Name Based Routing Scheme for Information-Centric Networking

The paradigm shift from the current host-centric networking to information-centric networking (ICN) generates much interest in the research community. In ICN, the primary communication entity is contents and uniquely identifiable names are assigned directly to the contents, where the names are independent of their locations. Thus, content naming and routing are the key challenges in ICN. In this paper, we propose a flat name based routing scheme for ICN. For scalable routing, we exploit the structure of container which is a space where contents or information objects reside. We also utilize bloom filters as an aggregated form of the flat names and enable the deepest match routing.