Guest editorial [Information Centric Networking]

The articles in this special section focus on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), an emerging direction in future Internet architecture research, gaining significant tractions among academia and industry. Aiming to replace the conventional host-to-host communication model by a data-centric model, ICN treats data content as the first class entity in network architecture. It not only brings benefits in application development, content distribution and security, but also challenges in almost every front of networking. This section contains a collection of papers on ICN architecture topics, specific algorithms and protocols, as well as results from implementations and experimentation.In particular.