@article{1fcadd15d0b54bb988d978ca76e0fd04,
title = "Information-Centric Networking: Research and Standardization Status",
abstract = "Information-centric networking (ICN) is a new approach to networking contents rather than devices that hold the contents. It has recently attracted much attention of network research and standardization communities. National and multi-national funded research projects have progressed worldwide. International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) started ICN standardization activities in 2012. In parallel, the standards-oriented research cooperation is progressing in the Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). All these global efforts have been collectively advancing the novel network architecture of ICN. However, there are very few surveys and discussions on the detailed ICN standardization status. To update the reader with information about the ICN research and standardization related activities, this paper starts with the history of global activities on ICN from 2010, giving references to various projects. It then describes the recent progress in the standardization of ICN component technologies in ITU-T and various documents produced by ICNRG. Lastly, it discusses the future directions for progressing ICN.",
keywords = "Data aware networking, ICNRG, ITU-T, Information-centric networking, Standardization",
author = "Keping Yu and Suyong Eum and Toshihiko Kurita and Qiaozhi Hua and Takuro Sato and Hidenori Nakazato and Tohru Asami and Kafle, {Ved P.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the Establishment and Demonstration of Common IoT Platform Technologies, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC), Japan, and in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) under Grant JP18K18044. Funding Information: Many national and multi-national funded research projects worldwide have worked together to boost the research activities on ICN. For instance, early ICN projects in the European Union (EU), which were supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) funding, followed an evolutionary approach to realizing ICN while cooperating with the current IP networks [19]. On the other hand, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA funded ICN projects followed a revolutionary approach with a slogan of {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}clean slate design{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} [20]. Similarly, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the USA also funded the project named Content-Based Mobile Edge Networking to develop the network services and transport architecture to enable efficient and transparent distribution of contents in mobile ad hoc network environments [21]. Funding Information: The ICN2020 project [39] started from July 2016 was a 3-year collaborative research project supported by EU FP7-Japan joint funding. Figure 3 shows the ICN2020 concept. This project is based on a large number of ICN studies to achieve the following six main goals [43]: 1) Design and develop a set of exemplary main applications with a special focus on video delivery and social networks; 2) Design and develop key features of IoT applications and ICN services; 3) Adapt ICN to complement 5G; 4) Improve/resolve solutions to vital functions of ICN based Infrastructure; 5) Realistic experiments on large scale local and global federated testbeds; 6) Stimulate general deployment of ICN in the real world, e.g., by integrating specific ICN concepts and solutions in POCs by industrial partners during the project lifetime.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2938586",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
pages = "126164--126176",
journal = "IEEE Access",
issn = "2169-3536",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
}