VSCCN: CCN with a very simple control plane

The proliferation of user-generated content available over the Internet has introduced a new aspect for the design of the Future Internet, called Information Centric Networking (ICN), which deal with the need for unified information access and consumption. Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is one of the important ICN methodologies, which defines a new transport for content request and response packets. For the operation of CCN data plane, it is normally assumed that a control plane based on a routing protocol such as OSPF is used. While routing protocols such as OSPF are quite suitable for the interoperation between the legacy IP network and CCN network, such protocols are not suitable for supporting content mobility because of their slow convergence time. Therefore, in this paper, we suggest a control plane that supports content mobility with a very simple extension to the original CCN message formats.