Identification and Management of Distributed Data

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Named Data Networking Project

Named content networking was first proposed in Jacobson, Smetters, and Thornton (2009), subsequently attracting several related contributors working on projects that were eventually integrated into a more general effort known as the Named Data Networking (NDN) project (Zhang et al. 2010).

The NDN architecture exploits the advantage of a universal central layer with a simple communication interface and is illustrated by an hourglass model (Figure 13.1) intentionally similar to the one proposed for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) stack (Deering 2001).

In both stacks, each layer represents an agreement between parts of the communication operation. For instance, layer 2 (the framing ...