Enhancing multi-source content delivery in content-centric networks with fountain coding

Authors: Parisis, G., Sourlas, V., Katsaros, K.V., Chai, W.K. and Pavlou, G.

Journal: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Content Caching and Delivery in Wireless Networks, CCDWN 2016

ISBN: 9781450340540

DOI: 10.1145/2836183.2836187

Abstract:

Fountain coding has been considered as especially suitable for lossy environments, such as wireless networks, as it provides redundancy while reducing coordination overheads between sender(s) and receiver(s). As such it presents beneficial properties for multi-source and/or multicast communication. In this paper we investigate enhancing the efficiency of multi-source content delivery in the context of Content-Centric Networking (CCN) with the usage of fountain codes. In particular, we examine whether the combination of fountain coding with the in-network caching capabilities of CCN can further improve performance. We also present an enhancement of CCN's Interest forwarding mechanism that aims at minimizing duplicate transmissions that may occur in a multi-source transmission scenario, where all available content providers and caches with matching (cached) content transmit data packets simultaneously. Our simulations indicate that the use of fountain coding in CCN is a valid approach that further increases network performance compared to traditional schemes.

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Enhancing Multi-Source Content Delivery in Content-Centric Networks with Fountain Coding

Authors: Parisis, G., Sourlas, V., Katsaros, K.V., Chai, W. and Pavlou, G.

Conference: Content Caching and Delivery in Wireless Networks workshop (CCDWN 2015) co-located with ACM CoNEXT

Dates: 1-4 December 2015

Abstract:

Fountain coding has been considered as especially suitable for lossy environments, such as wireless networks, as it provides redundancy while reducing coordination overheads between sender(s) and receiver(s). As such it presents beneficial properties for multi-source and/or multicast communication. In this paper we investigate enhancing/increasing multi-source content delivery efficiency in the context of Content-Centric Networking (CCN) with the usage of fountain codes. In particular, we examine whether the combination of fountain coding with the in-network caching capabilities of CCN can further improve performance. We also present an enhancement of CCN’s Interest forwarding mechanism that aims at minimizing duplicate transmissions that may occur in a multi-source transmission scenario, where all available content providers and caches with matching (cached) content transmit data packets simultaneously. Our simulations indicate that the use of fountain coding in CCN is a valid approach that further increases network performance compared to traditional schemes.

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