A Comprehensive Survey

This chapter provides details of the existing work related to our study. It introduces the schemes related to privacy protection and behavior accountability in Sect. 2.1. In this book, we not only provide the solutions designed for existing network architectures, but also propose innovative mechanisms for future networks (see Chap. 7). Thus, Sect. 2.2 will briefly introduce Information-Centric Networking (ICN), which is a typical example of the well-known future network architectures. Section 2.3 will introduce several emerging network technologies and design concepts of new network architectures which have been used in the schemes (i.e., architectures) that will be introduced in this book. Then, the advantages of the solution implemented at the network layer rather than the application layer will be briefly analyzed in Sect. 2.4. Finally, Sect. 2.5 summarizes this chapter.