1. Introduction to information centric networks
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Internet Architecture: Strengths and Limitations
1.2.1 Content distribution networks
1.3 Content Distribution Network Architecture
1.4 Characteristics of ICN, Design Principles, and Assumptions
1.4.1 Characteristics of ICN
1.4.2 Design Principles
1.4.3 Assumptions.-1.5 Key Building Blocks of ICN and Design Challenges
1.5.1 Key Building Block of ICN
1.5.2 Design Challenges.-1.6 Benefits of using ICN
1.7 Historical note on ICN
Architectures for content communication
2.1 Introduction.-2.2 Representative ICN Architectures
2.2.1 TRIAD Architecture
2.2.2 DONA Architecture
2.2.3 Content Centric Network (CCN) Architecture
2.2.4 PURSUIT Architecture
2.2.5 Network Information (NetInf) architecture
2.2.6 The NDN architecture
2.3 Comparative analysis of ICN Architectures
2.4 Software Defined Networking in ICN
2.4.1 Scope of integrating SDN into ICN
2.4.2 The SDN architecture in general.
2.5 Summary
3 Naming for unique content identification
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Naming system design
3.3 Importance of naming
3.4 key design issues and choices for information/content naming for ICNs
3.5 Naming approaches proposed so far
3.5.1 CBCB (Combined broadcast and content based routing)
3.5.2 DONA (Data oriented network architecture)
3.5.3 NetInf (Network of information)
3.5.4 NDN (Named data networking)
3.5.5 PURSUIT (Publish subscribe Internet technologies)
3.5.6 Hierarchical and flat based hybrid naming scheme in CCN IoT
3.5.7 Secure naming scheme for Information Centric Networks
3.6 Analysis of naming schemes along with their advantages and disadvantages
3.6.1 Flat vs. hierarchical vs. attribute value-based naming approaches
3.6.2 Name based routing vs. Name resolution.-3.6.3 Incremental vs. Clean slate approach
3.7 Need of an efficient content naming mechanism: Our perspective
3.8 Open research in ICN Naming
3.9 Summary
4 Routing schemes used in content delivery
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Realization of routing in ICN
4.3 Realization of Forwarding in ICN
4.4. NDN forwarding architecture with illustration
4.5. Stateful forwarding paradigm for NDN
4.6. OSPFN: An OSPF based routing for NDN
4.6.1 Routing in OSPFN
4.7 NLSR: A Secure Link State Routing protocol for NDN
4.7.1 Naming scheme
4.7.2 Format of LSAs
4.7.3 Dissemination of LSAs
7.4 Adjacency Establishment
4.8 Recent development in ICN Routing
4.9 Open Research in ICN routing
4.10 Summary
Caching mechanisms for faster content retrieval.
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 General overview of network caching
5.2 Research challenges and issues in ICN caching
5.2.1 Unique naming of content and caches
5.2.2 Popularity of data
5.2.3 Limited storage space in caching devices
5.2.4 Storage location
2.5 Staleness or freshness detection of content
5.2.6 Repeated caching of same Content
5.2.7 Content Mobility
5.2.8 New research challenges for ICN caching
5.3 Recent trends in Caching
5.3.1 In-Network caching
5.3.2 Edge Caching
5.3.3 SDN based Caching
5.4 Performance metrics along with objectives in terms of caching mechanisms for ICN
5.4.1 Cache hit ratio and server load
5.4.2 Content retrieval latency
5.4.3 Retransmission ratio for interest packets
5.4.4 Total cache evictions
5.4.5 Diversity Metric
5.4.6 Cache retention ratio
5.5 Analysis of various caching methods
5.6 Open research in ICN caching
5.7 Summary
6 Security in ICN
6.1 Introduction 6.2 Importance of Security in ICN 6.3 Key Security & privacy concerns in ICN architectures 6.4 Attacks in ICN 6.4.1 Naming related attacks
6.4.2 Routing related attacks. 6.4.3 Caching related attacks. 6.4.4 Content poisoning attack
6.4.5 Miscellaneous attacks
6.5 ICN attributes leading to security threats
6.6 Security mechanisms adopted in ICN
6.6.1 Countermeasures for naming attacks
6.6.2 Countermeasures for routing attacks
6.6.3 Countermeasures for caching attacks
6.6.4 Countermeasures for content poisoning attacks
6.6.5 Countermeasures for miscellaneous attacks
6.7 Open research in ICN security
6.8 Conclusion
7. Optimization in ICN
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The need of optimization in ICN
7.3 Approaches for optimization in ICN
7.4 Machine learning for optimization in ICN
7.4.1 Application of ML in Communication Networks
7.4.2 Application of ML in Information Centric Networks
7.5 Open research directions for optimization in ICN
7.6 Conclusion
8. A framework for integrating SDN in ICN
8.1 Introduction
8.2 State of the art work in SDN based ICN
8.3 The SDN architecture for ICN
8.3.1 Based on OpenFlow over CONET
8.4 Proposed architecture
8.4.1 Functional description
8.4.2 Routing in the proposed model
8.4.3 Caching in the proposed model
8.5 Analysis of the proposed architecture
8.6 Future research direction in SDN enable ICN
8.7 Summary
Integrating content communication into real life applications
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Recent trends in ICN applications
9.3 Information centric networks in Internet of things
9.3.1 Adaptation of information centric networks for internet of things (IoT) : Challenges and opportunities
9.4 Information centric networks in smart grid
9.5 Information centric networks in wireless sensor networks
9.6 Information centric networks in mobile adhoc networks
9.7 Information centric networks in vehicular adhoc networks
9.8 Open research in the field of content centric real life applications
9.9 Summary.