Digital fountains in information-centric networking

  • Authors:
  • George Parisis;Dirk Trossen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Information-centric networking
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we revisit digital fountains as an information theoretic approach for disseminating information. We embed this approach, however, into the architectural context of information centric networking (ICN). We discuss how our information-centric network architecture enables efficient information dissemination through fountain coding and we present the basic network operations for disseminating information from publishers to subscribers.