Less Pain, Most of the Gain: Incrementally Deployable ICN

TitleLess Pain, Most of the Gain: Incrementally Deployable ICN
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsFayazbakhsh, S. Kaveh, Lin Y., Tootoonchian A., Ghodsi A., Koponen T., Maggs B. M., Ng KC., Sekar V., & Shenker S. J.
Page(s)147-158
Other Numbers3431
Abstract

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has seen a significant resurgencein recent years. ICN promises benefits to users and serviceproviders along several dimensions (e.g., performance, security,and mobility). These benefits, however, come at a non-trivialcost as many ICN proposals envision adding significant complexityto the network by having routers serve as content caches andsupport nearest-replica routing. This paper is driven by the simplequestion of whether this additional complexity is justified and ifwe can achieve these benefits in an incrementally deployable fashion.To this end, we use trace-driven simulations to analyze thequantitative benefits attributed to ICN (e.g., lower latency and congestion).Somewhat surprisingly, we find that pervasive cachingand nearest-replica routing are not fundamentally necessary—mostof the performance benefits can be achieved with simpler cachingarchitectures. We also discuss how the qualitative benefits of ICN(e.g., security, mobility) can be achieved without any changes to thenetwork. Building on these insights, we present a proof-of-conceptdesign of an incrementally deployable ICN architecture.

Acknowledgment

We would like to thank our shepherd David Oran, the SIGCOMMreviewers, and Zafar Ayyub Qazi for their feedback.Barath Raghavan contributed significantly to early discussions thatinformed the idICN design. This work was supported in part byNSF grants CNS 1117161 and 1040838, and AFRL grant FA8750-11-1-0262. Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh was supported in part by aRenaissance Technologies Fellowship.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/lesspain13.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2013), pp. 147-158, Hong Kong, China

Abbreviated Authors

S. Fayazbakhsh, Y. Lin, A. Tootonchian, A. Ghodsi, T. Koponen, B. Maggs, KC Ng, V. Sekar, and S. Shenker

ICSI Research Group

Networking and Security

ICSI Publication Type

Article in conference proceedings