Guidelines Towards Information-driven MobilityManagement

TL;DR

This paper reviews current mobility management in Information-Centric Networking, highlights challenges, and proposes guidelines to develop a content-centric mobility management approach that leverages ICN's intrinsic features.

Contribution

It provides an overview of existing ICN mobility solutions, identifies key challenges, and offers design guidelines to shift towards a content-centric mobility management paradigm.

Findings

Current ICN mobility solutions are limited by IP-based principles.

Challenges include lack of native mobility support and content-awareness.

Proposed guidelines aim to enhance content-centric mobility handling.

Abstract

The architectural semantics of \emph{Information-Centric Networking} bring in interesting features in regards to mobility management: Information-Centric Networking is content-oriented, connection-less, and receiver-driven. Despite such intrinsic advantages, the support for node movement is being based on the principles of IP solutions. IP-based solutions are, however, host-oriented, and Information-Centric Networking paradigms are information-oriented. By following IP mobility management principles, some of the natural mobility support advantages of Information-Centric Networking are not being adequately explored. This paper contributes with an overview on how Information-Centric Networking paradigms handle mobility management as of today, highlighting current challenges and proposing a set of design guidelines to overcome them, thus steering a vision towards a content-centric mobility management approach.