System and method to facilitate robust traffic load balancing and remote adaptive active queue management in an information-centric networking environment

One or more non-transitory tangible media encoding logic that includes instructions for execution by a processor, wherein the execution causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

• generating an interest message to be transmitted using each face of a plurality of faces associated with a node, wherein the interest message is to be discarded by each of a neighboring node of a plurality of neighboring nodes that receive the interest message;
• determining, for each face of the plurality of faces associated with the node, a one-hop propagation delay associated with each face of the plurality of faces;
• selecting a particular face through which to transmit another interest message based, at least in part, on the one-hop propagation delay of the particular face and a number of pending interests associated with the particular face;
• identifying an end-to-end propagation delay for each of a plurality of paths between the node and a plurality of producer applications associated with a plurality of other nodes;
• identifying a maximum end-to-end propagation delay for the plurality of paths;
• and
• setting an interest window size for the plurality of paths, wherein the interest window size indicates a number of pending interests that can be handled by each of the plurality of paths, the plurality of paths are associated with a radio access technology (RAT) type, and the setting includes identifying a particular management profile of a plurality of management profiles associated with the RAT type, wherein each management profile identifies at least two parameters used to set the interest window size and wherein each management profile is associated with a range of potential end-to-end propagation delays associated with the RAT type and an available bandwidth of the RAT type.

A node comprising:

• at least one memory element for storing data;
• and
• at least one processor for executing instructions associated with the data, wherein the executing causes the node to perform operations comprising:
• generating an interest message to be transmitted using each face of a plurality of faces associated with the node, wherein the interest message is to be discarded by each of a neighboring node of a plurality of neighboring nodes that receive the interest message;
• determining, for each face of the plurality of faces associated with the node, a one-hop propagation delay associated with each face of the plurality of faces;
• selecting a particular face through which to transmit another interest message based, at least in part, on the one-hop propagation delay of the particular face and a number of pending interests associated with the particular face;
• identifying an end-to-end propagation delay for each of a plurality of paths between the node and a plurality of producer applications associated with a plurality of other nodes;
• identifying a maximum end-to-end propagation delay for the plurality of paths;
• and
• setting an interest window size for the plurality of paths, wherein the interest window size indicates the number of pending interests that can be handled by each of the plurality of paths, the plurality of paths are associated with a radio access technology (RAT) type, and the setting includes identifying a particular management profile of a plurality of management profiles associated with the RAT type, wherein each management profile identifies at least two parameters used to set the interest window size and wherein each management profile is associated with a range of potential end-to-end propagation delays associated with the RAT type and an available bandwidth of the RAT type.