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Less pain, most of the gain: Incrementally deployable ICN

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Fayazbakhsh, SK; Lin, Y; Tootoonchian, A; Ghodsi, A; Koponen, T; Maggs, B; Ng, KC; Sekar, V; Shenker, S
Published in: Computer Communication Review
December 1, 2013

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has seen a significant resurgence in recent years. ICN promises benefits to users and service providers along several dimensions (e.g., performance, security, and mobility). These benefits, however, come at a non-trivial cost as many ICN proposals envision adding significant complexity to the network by having routers serve as content caches and support nearest-replica routing. This paper is driven by the simple question of whether this additional complexity is justified and if we can achieve these benefits in an incrementally deployable fashion. To this end, we use trace-driven simulations to analyze the quantitative benefits attributed to ICN (e.g., lower latency and congestion). Somewhat surprisingly, we find that pervasive caching and nearest-replica routing are not fundamentally necessary - most of the performance benefits can be achieved with simpler caching architectures. We also discuss how the qualitative benefits of ICN (e.g., security, mobility) can be achieved without any changes to the network. Building on these insights, we present a proof-of-concept design of an incrementally deployable ICN architecture. © 2013 ACM.

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Computer Communication Review

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EISSN

1943-5819

ISSN

0146-4833

Publication Date

December 1, 2013

Volume

43

Issue

4

Start / End Page

147 / 158

Related Subject Headings

  • Networking & Telecommunications
  • 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
  • 4006 Communications engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0805 Distributed Computing
  • 0803 Computer Software
 

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Fayazbakhsh, S. K., Lin, Y., Tootoonchian, A., Ghodsi, A., Koponen, T., Maggs, B., … Shenker, S. (2013). Less pain, most of the gain: Incrementally deployable ICN. Computer Communication Review, 43(4), 147–158. https://doi.org/10.1145/2534169.2486023
Fayazbakhsh, S. K., Y. Lin, A. Tootoonchian, A. Ghodsi, T. Koponen, B. Maggs, K. C. Ng, V. Sekar, and S. Shenker. “Less pain, most of the gain: Incrementally deployable ICN.” Computer Communication Review 43, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 147–58. https://doi.org/10.1145/2534169.2486023.
Fayazbakhsh SK, Lin Y, Tootoonchian A, Ghodsi A, Koponen T, Maggs B, et al. Less pain, most of the gain: Incrementally deployable ICN. Computer Communication Review. 2013 Dec 1;43(4):147–58.
Fayazbakhsh, S. K., et al. “Less pain, most of the gain: Incrementally deployable ICN.” Computer Communication Review, vol. 43, no. 4, Dec. 2013, pp. 147–58. Scopus, doi:10.1145/2534169.2486023.
Fayazbakhsh SK, Lin Y, Tootoonchian A, Ghodsi A, Koponen T, Maggs B, Ng KC, Sekar V, Shenker S. Less pain, most of the gain: Incrementally deployable ICN. Computer Communication Review. 2013 Dec 1;43(4):147–158.

Published In

Computer Communication Review

DOI

EISSN

1943-5819

ISSN

0146-4833

Publication Date

December 1, 2013

Volume

43

Issue

4

Start / End Page

147 / 158

Related Subject Headings

  • Networking & Telecommunications
  • 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
  • 4006 Communications engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0805 Distributed Computing
  • 0803 Computer Software