Information-Centric Mobile Networks: A Survey, Discussion, and Future Research Directions

Information-centric networking (ICN) and its fruition, the named data (NDN) is a paradigm shift from host-centric address-based communication architecture to content-centric name-based one. ICN intends resolve various major issues faced by today’s internet such as privacy, security, consistent routing, mobility, name few. With massive increase of mobile traffic in era, mobility one concerns networking. On hand, realization i.e., NDN follows pull-based model natively supports consumer (end-user) wired networks maintaining forwarding states on intermediate nodes. Nevertheless, nodes confront wireless environments excessive energy consumption result request flooding, content retrieval delays due intermittent connectivity, bandwidth broadcasting nature medium, among others. The producer (content-generator) other was not initially supported original architectural design for both networks. Therefore, efficiently address degradation incurred consumer/producer nodes, plethora management schemes have been proposed over recent few years. In this paper, we provided detailed survey existing research efforts—in context well that literature. Moreover, outlined directions considering role futuristic technologies artificial intelligence-enabled smart networks, edge computing, software-defined networking, vehicular-fog autonomous driving, resource-constrained Internet Things.