Reducing forwarding state in content-centric networks with semi-stateless forwarding

Routers in the Content-Centric Networking (CCN) architecture maintain state for all pending content requests, so as to be able to later return the corresponding content. By employing stateful forwarding, CCN supports native multicast, enhances security and enables adaptive forwarding, at the cost of...

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Main Authors: Tsilopoulos, Christos, Xylomenos, George, Thomas, Yannis
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bandwidth
Computer architecture
Computers
Conferences
Ports (Computers)
Probabilistic logic
Unicast
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Summary:Routers in the Content-Centric Networking (CCN) architecture maintain state for all pending content requests, so as to be able to later return the corresponding content. By employing stateful forwarding, CCN supports native multicast, enhances security and enables adaptive forwarding, at the cost of excessive forwarding state that raises scalability concerns. We propose a semi-stateless forwarding scheme in which, instead of tracking each request at every on-path router, requests are tracked at every d hops. At intermediate hops, requests gather reverse path information, which is later used to deliver responses between routers using Bloom filter-based stateless forwarding. Our approach effectively reduces forwarding state, while preserving the advantages of CCN forwarding. Evaluation results over realistic ISP topologies show that our approach reduces forwarding state by 54%-70% in unicast delivery, without any bandwidth penalties, while in multicast delivery it reduces forwarding state by 34%-55% at the expense of 6%-13% in bandwidth overhead.
ISSN:0743-166X
2641-9874
DOI:10.1109/INFOCOM.2014.6848148