ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how an internet of things (IoT) deployment is impacted by the underlying mechanisms of information-centric networking (ICN), evidencing not only the contributions that name-based operations can provide, but also identifying its shortcomings and necessary enhancements to ICN in order to avoid them. It deals with conclusions and the identification of outstanding issues, and future research directions. The chapter also explores the opportunities that ICN provides to IoT deployments, discussing existing approaches and standardization work, and evidencing how the generic traits of the Future Internet architectures contribute to such scenarios. It highlights potential impact points that the underlying operations of the ICN architecture can exert over key aspects of IoT, such as caching, information freshness, security and overhead, amongst others. The chapter provides a thorough look at interoperability aspects for generically integrating different networking architectures. It examines the discovery, identification and interoperable addressing of content available in different connected networking architectures and protocols by consumers in other deployments.
