Authors:
Bouacherine Abdelkader
;
Mustapha Reda Senouci
and
Billal Merabti
Affiliation:
Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Algeria
Keyword(s):
Named Data Networking, NDN Flow, NDN Fairness, Forwarding Strategy, Forwarding Decisions, Weighted Alpha-proportional Fairness, Flow Assignment Problem.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Communication Networking
;
Network Architectures
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
Named Data Networking (NDN) is one of the most promising instantiations of the Information Centric Networking
(ICN) philosophy. This new design needs a new thinking due to the fact that the definitions of some
concepts used in TCP/IP paradigm are no longer appropriate. In this context, flow and fairness concepts are
examined and new perspectives are proposed. An important literature exists about forwarding strategies and
congestion control in NDN context. Unfortunately, the lack of definitions pushed many researchers to use the
TCP/IP heritage. As a consequence, they neither fully benefit from the native multi-path support nor address
the fairness problem. In order to overcome such a drawback and to meet end-users fairness while optimizing
network throughput, a new Parallel Multi-Path Forwarding Strategy (PMP-FS) is proposed in this paper. The
PMP-FS proactively splits traffic by determining how the multiple routes will be used. It takes into consideration
NDN in-network caching and
NDN Interest aggregation features to achieve weighted alpha fairness
among different flows. Obtained preliminary results show that PMP-FS looks promising.
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