LOMCF: Forwarding and Caching in Named Data Networking Based MANETs

• Published in: IEEE transactions on vehicular technology Vol. 66; no. 10; pp. 9350 - 9364
• Main Authors: Rehman, Rana Asif, Byung-Seo Kim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Batteries; Caching; Computer architecture; content; Flooding; information centric; interest; Internet; IP (Internet Protocol); mobile <named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX"> ad hoc</tex-math> </inline-formula> </named-content> networks (MANETs); Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication systems; Mobile computing; named data networking; Packet transmission; Performance degradation; Protocol; Protocol (computers); Protocols; Redundancy; Relays; TCP (protocol); TCP-IP; TCP/IP (protocol); Variation; Wireless networks
• ISSN: 0018-9545; 1939-9359
• DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2017.2700335

Named data networking (NDN) resolves traditional transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP)-based Internet problems (i.e., location dependent, complex usage, scalability, poor resource utilization, etc.) and is considered as an eligible candidate for futuristic Internet paradigm. In NDN-based mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), the participating nodes are operated in highly dynamic and challengeable environment such as low battery power, channel fluctuations, intermittent connectivity, etc. Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless channel, the NDN-based MANETs highlight severe issues (e.g., packet collisions, flooding, data redundancy, and packet retransmissions), which further degrade network performance. In this paper, to cope with these problems, we have proposed a novel protocol, named location-aware on-demand multipath caching and forwarding for NDN-based MANETs. Performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated by using a simulator called ndnSIM. Extensive experiments along their results show that proposed protocol performs better as compared with the other recent proposed protocols in terms of content retrieval time, Interest retransmissions, and the total number of Interest packets injected, as well as discarded, in the network.