Content-Centric Networking - Architectural Overview and Protocol Description

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of Content-Centric Networking (CCN), detailing its architecture and a minimal protocol based on Interest and Content Object messages, independent of wire encoding.

Contribution

It introduces a core CCN architecture and protocol specification, clarifying message structures and behaviors for content-centric networking.

Findings

Defines core CCN message types and fields

Specifies protocol behavior and message interpretation

Establishes a wire encoding independent architecture

Abstract

This document describes the core concepts of the CCNx architecture and presents a minimum network protocol based on two messages: Interests and Content Objects. It specifies the set of mandatory and optional fields within those messages and describes their behavior and interpretation. This architecture and protocol specification is independent of a specific wire encoding.