A Deployable and Scalable Information-Centric Network Architecture

The misalignment between the host-centric architecture and the content-centric usage of the current Internet results in inefficient content and service access. Recent content-oriented network research fails to address the critical importance of an information-centric network architecture providing the availability of clients accessing services with user-generated content as well as accessing published content from the Internet services. This paper proposes a Deployable and Scalable Information-Centric Network Architecture (DSINA) that incorporates route-by-name system into the current Internet infrastructure. In this architecture, not only DSINA name information but also traditional host location is handled by network devices. With the register-access-result model, DSINA can handle not only content retrieval, but also other applications including user-generated content uploading and notification pushing.