Efficient Producer Mobility Management Model in Information-Centric Networking

Abstract

Information centric networking is a clean-slate Internet architecture designed as a future Internet to supplement and completely replace the current Internet architecture. The future Internet information-centric networking was proposed in different kind of approaches to offered vast advantages ranging from security, catching, and content mobility support. However, some of the approaches support only content consumer, while content producer mobility faces many challenges, such as unnecessary Interest packet losses, high handoff latency, scalability issues, and high signaling overhead. Therefore, many approaches, protocols, and schemes were proposed to address the problem. The schemes such as indirection-based approach, locator-based approach, rendezvous-based, forwarding-based, and control/data plane-based, and mapping-based approach were investigated using either analytical or simulation investigation. However, in many cases of the formulation of an analytical investigation for information-centric networking mobility support management, the determination and incorporation of producers' movement behavior are neglected, whereas the movement pattern of mobile content producer plays a vital role in mobility performance analysis of the wireless mobile network. This paper proposed a producer mobility management model for information-centric networking with a random waypoint and random walk mobility model incorporated, to measure the movement pattern effect and proved the uniformity of the proposed model to support any kind of mobility support approaches or schemes. The performance analysis result of our proposed model revealed that movement pattern does affect the mobile producer handoff performance. Hence, for the accuracy of handoff latency, handoff signaling cost, and data packets delivery cost investigation, mobility models must be selected carefully based on the application domain.