COMET: Content mediator architecture for content-aware networks

This paper presents the vision of the EU FP7 project COMET (COntent Mediator architecture for content-aware nETworks), which aims at defining a novel content-oriented Internet architecture for simplifying content access and supporting content distribution in the network in a content-aware fashion. The COMET architecture will deal with content as a primitive, facilitating unified access to any type of content regardless of location and way of distribution. It will provide global content naming as well as infrastructure for resolving content names to identifiers required for content access. Moreover, this content-centric approach will take advantage of network, and server awareness, as well as user and content characteristics, in order to improve efficiency of content delivery.