Virtual storage and area limited data delivery over named data networking

Many physical devices and sensors make it possible to obtain more localized data and applications which provide more localized information for users will appear. Generally, those applications use a storage server for computing location-dependent data. Traffic of Internet of Things (IoT) devices may cause concentration, when data is stored into a server. It is desirable that each location-dependent data is stored in each area, because each data request can be processed there and each user can get the data from a nearby server. This paper proposes the virtual storage with Key-Value Stores over Named Data Networking. In proposed system, the location-dependent data is cached in local servers, which are located at network edge, and each user can get the data from a nearby local server. We evaluate the proposed system by simulation from the views of delay time and energy consumption. We compare the proposed system with the conventional system, in which all data is stored in a certain server and all users retrieve it from the server. We show that the proposed system can reduce the both of delay time and energy consumption compared with the conventional system.