Predictive mobility applied to content centric networks

Even though the most recent proposal to change the architecture of internet from network-based to data-based, called Named Data Networking (NDN) is rapidly evolving, mobility support is still an open issue. Mobile IP-enabled devices are currently in the billions and increasing; as a consequence, mobility represents a challenge to overcome for the success of NDN. In this paper, we target NDN on a widespread mobile content delivery problem: highway-restricted path mobility. We propose a solution on the infrastructure side using selective interest forwarding to neighbouring nodes, and furthermore, we show that this strategy reduces the delay and increases the hit rate compared to the standard NDN approach.