A forwarding plane for information-centric internetworking

This paper presents several areas of ongoing doctoral research towards the design and evaluation of network functions to enable an information-centric forwarding plane. With the hypothesis of a future Internet around large scale information-object interconnection, classical host-centric routing approaches cannot work efficiently and new communications schemes should be developed. Target components and network support functions include an internetworking framework based on hash-based data structures to enable efficient multicast transport services. Research issues include understanding the implications of network coding and opportunistic caching in an information-centric multicast-capable forwarding fabric.