CONET: a content centric inter-networking architecture

CONET is a content-centric inter-network that provides users with a network access to remote named-resources, rather than to remote hosts. Named-resources can be either data (named-data) or service-access-points (named-sap), identified by a network-identifier (a name). CONET interconnects CONET Sub Systems, which can be layer-2 networks, layer-3 networks or couples of nodes connected by a point-to-point link. CONET supports the already proposed "clean-slate" and "overlay" deployment approaches. In addition, CONET supports a novel "integration" approach, which extends the IP layer with a new header option that makes IP itself content-aware. CONET limits the size of name-based routing tables by including only a subset of all named-resources; missing entries are looked up in a name-system and then cached. CONET does not maintain states in network nodes, to deliver contents.