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Handling mobility in future publish-subscribe information-centric networks

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Future information-oriented Internet architectures are expected to effectively support mobility. PSIRP, an EU FP7 research project, designed, prototyped, and investigated a clean-slate architecture for the future Internet based on the publish-subscribe paradigm. PURSUIT, another EU FP7 research project, is further developing this architecture, which we refer to as Ψ, the Publish Subscribe Internet (PSI) architecture, extending it in various directions, including a deeper investigation of higher (transport and application) and lower layers (e.g., various link technologies, such as wireless and optical). In this paper we present the basics of the Ψ architecture, including the built-in multicast and caching mechanisms, with particular focus on mobility support. We discuss how the native, clean-slate, Ψ instantiation of the information-centric model can support mobility and also present an overlay variant of Ψ we have developed in order to provide an evolutionary path to adoption. Based on analysis and simulation we demonstrate the advantages of the proposed architecture compared to well established solutions such as Mobile IPv6.

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  1. http://www.fp7-pursuit.eu/PursuitWeb/?page_id=338.

  2. We omit acknowledgment messages from the figures for clarity reasons.

  3. It is noted that the routing update takes place before the arrival of the acknowledgement packet to the MN. However, we take these messages into account for reasons of completeness and in order to provide a fair comparison of the considered protocols.

  4. http://www.fp7-pursuit.eu/.

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The work reported in this paper was supported in part by the FP7 ICT project PSIRP, under contract ICT-2007- 216173 and by the FP7 ICT project PURSUIT, under contract ICT-2010-257217.

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  1. Mobile Multimedia Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, 104 34, Greece

    Nikos Fotiou, Konstantinos Katsaros, George C. Polyzos & George Xylomenos

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Rm FE13, Cambridge, UK

    Dirk Trossen

  3. Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University, Otakaari 5, 02150, Espoo, Finland

    Mikko Särelä

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Fotiou, N., Katsaros, K., Polyzos, G.C. et al. Handling mobility in future publish-subscribe information-centric networks. Telecommun Syst 53, 299–314 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-013-9699-9

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