Toward a Flexible Resource Management System for Content Centric Networking

Content Centric Networking (CCN) is a new and promising architecture that can provide better security and much improved content delivery service than the current Internet. Each router in CCN has a content store that caches objects according to a replacement algorithm and a pending interest table that stores pending requests waiting for matching objects. We propose a flexible resource management system where the content store and the pending interest table are integrated such that objects and requests share the same storage space. To each pending request, we add control fields that can be used to control caching resources according to an objective function.We examine some applications that can benefit from using the proposed resource management system. The results show that key performance improvements can be achieved with resource management.