Information centric popular content broadcasting

A method performed at a Radio Base Station (RBS) of supplying Information Centric Networking (ICN) content to at least one User Equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving a request for content, that is to be live-streamed, from the at least one UE;
• submitting a request for the content to at least one ICN node;
• receiving the requested content as the ICN content from the ICN node;
• submitting the received ICN content to said at least one UE, for subsequent caching at the at least one UE;
• and
• continuously submitting requests to said at least one ICN node to obtain live-stream delivery of the ICN content without further content requests from the UE and submitting any further received ICN content to said at least one UE, until no further content is received from the at least one ICN node.

A User Equipment (UE) configured to acquire content, which UE comprises:

• a processing unit;
• and
• a memory containing instructions executable by said processing unit and when executed, said UE is operative to:
• submit a request for content, that is live-streamed, to a Radio Base Station (RBS);
• receive, in reply to the request, the requested content from the RBS, the content being acquired by the RBS from an Information Centric Networking (ICN) node and provided to the UE from the RBS upon the RBS receiving the content as ICN content, wherein the RBS continuously submits requests to the ICN node to obtain live-stream delivery of the ICN content without further content requests from the UE;
• store the received ICN content in the memory of the UE;
• acquire, when a piece of content is to be rendered at the UE, the piece of content from the received ICN content in the memory;
• and
• submit a second request to the RBS for a missing piece of the content when a piece of the ICN content is missing in the memory.

A Radio Base Station (RBS) configured to supply Information Centric Networking (ICN) content to at least one User Equipment (UE) which RBS comprises:

• a processing unit;
• and
• a memory containing instructions executable by said processing unit and when executed, said RBS is operative to:
• receive a request for content, that is to be live-streamed from the at least one UE;
• submit a request for the content to at least one ICN node;
• receive the requested content as ICN content from the at least one ICN node;
• submit the received ICN content to said at least one UE, for subsequent caching at the at least one UE;
• and
• continuously submit requests to said at least one ICN node to obtain live-stream delivery of the ICN content without further content requests from the UE and submit any further received ICN content to said at least one UE, until no further content is received from the at least one ICN node.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program comprising instructions which, when executed on a processor of a User Equipment (UE), instructs the UE to perform operations comprising:

• submitting a request for content, that is live-streamed, to a Radio Base Station (RBS);
• receiving, in reply to the request, the requested content from the RBS, the content being acquired by the RBS from an Information Centric Networking (ICN) node and provided to the UE from the RBS upon the RBS receiving the content as ICN content, wherein the RBS continuously submits requests to the ICN node to obtain live-stream delivery of the ICN content without further content requests from the UE;
• storing the received ICN content in a local storage at the UE;
• acquiring, when a piece of content is to be rendered at the UE, the piece of content from the received ICN content in the local storage;
• and
• submitting a second request to the RBS for a missing piece of the content when a piece of the ICN content is missing in the local storage.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program comprising instructions which, when executed on a processor of a Radio Base Station (RBS) supplying ICN content to at least one User Equipment (UE), instructs the RBS to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a request for content, that is to be live-streamed, from the at least one UE;
• submitting a request for the content to at least one Information Centric Networking (ICN) node;
• receiving the requested content from the ICN node;
• submitting the received ICN content to said at least one UE, for subsequent caching at the at least one UE;
• and
• continuously submitting requests to said at least one ICN node to obtain live-stream delivery of the ICN content without further content requests from the UE and submitting any further received ICN content to said at least one UE, until no further content is received from the at least one ICN node.