A smart home solution over CCN

Content-centric network (CCN) [1] is an emerging future network paradigm that concentrates on the content itself rather than the content owner or location information. Many research efforts have been made to apply CCN over various fields such as sensor networks, vehicular networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, disaster recovery services, machine-to-machine communications and Internet of Things (IoT). Especially, IoT is an upcoming network scenario which can tap into the benefits of CCN [2]. A smart home solution is a popular IoT application which needs inter-operability among smart devices in the home in a secure fashion. Although, this sounds like it should be a part of the everyday world; even after twenty years of its inception, it is still a developing technology. This is because of the setup, maintenance and security challenges that a smart home solution faces. CCN supports ease of naming and scoping, security and as a platform for providing the devices connectivity to the outside world without the need of any translation gateway.