Forwarding and caching in video streaming over ICSDN: A clean-slate publish-subscribe approach

Ashraf，M. Wasim Abbas1; Huang，Chuanhe1; Raza，Arif2; Sharif，Kashif3; Karim，Md Monjurul4; Huang，Shidong1

2022-12-24

10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109433

Computer Networks   Impact Factor & Quartile

1389-1286

1872-7069

Nowadays, Internet usage has become prevalent, primarily because of high-quality heterogeneous multimedia content expectations from the subscriber (consumer), which puts tremendous pressure on the publisher (producer) in the networks. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a future internet architecture that optimizes data resources through content-based forwarding and caching, making it well-suited for multimedia content and video streaming (VS) scenarios. However, real-time data delivery is challenging in the current ICN-based publish–subscribe (pub-sub) mechanism, which pushes the existing pub-sub studies to prioritize more on the forwarding information base (FIB) rather than the pending interest table (PIT). This leads to issues such as inefficient caching and forwarding mechanisms, high overhead, and communication costs. To address these challenges, in this paper, we present a novel forwarding and caching solution named VS-ICSDN, integrating the combined principles of ICN-based pub-sub scheme and software-defined networking (SDN) in order to utilize the network resources more efficiently. We design a clean-slate caching strategy and name-based forwarding method to support both on-path and off-path caching on ICN nodes to coordinate flow entries among the SDN controller and clean-slate ICN nodes to maximize PIT utilization. In addition, the framework allows the content to be stored and searched in chunks with a single request to access the desired content, reducing the communication overhead and significantly improving overall performance. A simulation-based testbed and experimental result analysis validate our proposed work's effectiveness in ensuring efficient network resource usage with low communication overhead and computational cost compared to other baseline methods.

Caching Controller Forwarding Information-centric networking Pub-Sub Software-defined networking

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English

Others

National Natural Science Foundation of China[61772385];

Computer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Information Systems ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications

WOS:000899815500004

ELSEVIER

2-s2.0-85141512542

Scopus

1.School of Computer Science,Wuhan University,Wuhan,430072,China
2.College of Computer Science and Software Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen,China
3.School of Computer Science and Technology,Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing,100081,China
4.Research Institute of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,China

Ashraf，M. Wasim Abbas,Huang，Chuanhe,Raza，Arif,et al. Forwarding and caching in video streaming over ICSDN: A clean-slate publish-subscribe approach[J]. Computer Networks,2022,219.

Ashraf，M. Wasim Abbas,Huang，Chuanhe,Raza，Arif,Sharif，Kashif,Karim，Md Monjurul,&Huang，Shidong.(2022).Forwarding and caching in video streaming over ICSDN: A clean-slate publish-subscribe approach.Computer Networks,219.

Ashraf，M. Wasim Abbas,et al."Forwarding and caching in video streaming over ICSDN: A clean-slate publish-subscribe approach".Computer Networks 219(2022).