Swift: the missing link between peer-to-peer and information-centric networks

  • Authors:
  • Flutra Osmani;Victor Grishchenko;Raul Jimenez;Björn Knutsson

  • Affiliations:
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden;Citrea, Ekaterinburg, Russia;KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden;KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First Workshop on P2P and Dependability
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A common pitfall of many proposals on new information-centric architectures for the Internet is the imbalance of up-front costs and immediate benefits. If properly designed and deployed, information-centric architectures can accommodate the current Internet usage which is at odds with the historical design of the Internet infrastructure. To address this concern, we focus on prospects of incremental adoption of this paradigm by introducing a peer-to-peer based transport protocol for content dissemination named Swift that exhibits properties required in an Information-Centric Network (ICN), yet can be deployed in the existing Internet infrastructure. Our design integrates components while highly prioritizing modularity and sketches a path for piece-meal adoption which we consider a critical enabler of any progress in the field.