A Mechanism of Information-Centric Networking Based on Data Centers

Information-centric networking (ICN) aims to make the Internet more data-oriented or content-centric, thus name-based routing and universal caching are used to change the way users requesting and fetching content, as well as to improve network performance. However, current implementation mechanisms define some kinds of "clean-slate" architecture and certain brand new technologies need to be designed and implemented. In this paper, some requisites reflecting ICN\´s essential ingredients are generalized, and based on the OpenFlow and the data center technologies, a mechanism called odICN, which can satisfy those aforementioned requisites, is proposed together with its algorithmic framework. Finally, a prototype of odICN is built to verify its feasibility.