Congestion control in named data networking – A survey

• Published in: Computer communications Vol. 86; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Ren, Yongmao, Li, Jun, Shi, Shanshan, Li, Lingling, Wang, Guodong, Zhang, Beichuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.07.2016
• Subjects: Architecture (computers); Congestion; Congestion control; Future Internet architecture; Information centric networking; Interest rates; IP (Internet Protocol); Named data networking; Networks; TCP (protocol); TCP/IP (protocol); Transport; Transport protocol; Information centric networking; Named data networking; Future Internet architecture; Congestion control; Transport protocol
• ISSN: 0140-3664; 1873-703X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2016.04.017

As a typical Information Centric Networking, Named Data Networking (NDN) has attracted wide research attentions in recent years. NDN evolves today's host-centric network architecture TCP/IP to a data-centric network architecture. It turns the end-to-end connection-oriented transport of TCP/IP into receiver-driven connectionless transport. Compared with the traditional TCP/IP networking, the transport in NDN has new characteristics: Receiver-driven, One-Interest-one-Data, Multi-Source, and Multi-Path. These distinguished features pose new challenges to NDN congestion control mechanisms. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of state-of-art techniques aiming to address these issues, with particular focus on improving the effectiveness of congestion detection and the efficiency of Interest rate shaping. As a new research area, this paper also points out research challenges and open issues in this subject.