Networking named content

  • Authors:
  • Van Jacobson;Diana K. Smetters;James D. Thornton;Michael F. Plass;Nicholas H. Briggs;Rebecca L. Braynard

  • Affiliations:
  • Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA;Palo Alto Reseach Center, Palo Alto, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Network use has evolved to be dominated by content distribution and retrieval, while networking technology still speaks only of connections between hosts. Accessing content and services requires mapping from the what that users care about to the network's where. We present Content-Centric Networking (CCN) which treats content as a primitive - decoupling location from identity, security and access, and retrieving content by name. Using new approaches to routing named content, derived heavily from IP, we can simultaneously achieve scalability, security and performance. We implemented our architecture's basic features and demonstrate resilience and performance with secure file downloads and VoIP calls.