A Content-Based Architecture

This chapter introduces an architecture based on content that can be used to balance privacy protection and behavior accountability in the network. The terms requester and receiver are used interchangeably in this chapter, because the receiver acts as the content requester in content-based networks. In the network where content transmission is the main requirement, the content acquisition process is usually driven by requesters. Therefore, in this chapter, the proposed architecture is designed from the requester’s point of view.