Information centric networking for long term evolution
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsOm Prakash Suthar, Paul A. Polakos
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a mobile network includes at least one Information Centric Networking (ICN) enabled mobile base station configured to support ICN transport protocol, and at least one ICN enabled evolved packet core (EPC) device configured to support ICN transport protocol, where the ICN enabled EPC device is operative to assign an ICN based identity to a user equipment (UE) according to an attach request, wherein the attach request indicates that the UE supports the ICN transport protocol.
Claims20
A computer implemented method comprising:
- indicating in an initial attach request sent by a User Equipment (UE) that the UE is Information Centric Networking (ICN) capable;
- receiving an assigned ICN name upon success of the initial attach request;
- receiving a request from an application layer on the UE;
- determining whether the request is an ICN-based request using an ICN transport protocol or an Internet Protocol (IP)-based request using an IP transport protocol;
- and
- upon determining that the request comprises an ICN-based request:
- forwarding the ICN-based request to an ICN transport function on the UE;
- and
- compressing ICN headers in the ICN-based request using Robust Header Compression (RoHC).
An apparatus comprising:
- a network interface configured to implement an Information Centric Networking (ICN) transport protocol;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- indicate in an initial attach request that the apparatus is Information Centric Networking (ICN) capable;
- receive an assigned ICN name upon success of the initial attach request;
- receive a request from an application layer on the apparatus;
- determine whether the request is an ICN-based request using the ICN transport protocol or an Internet Protocol (IP)-based request using an IP transport protocol;
- and
- upon determining that the request comprises an ICN-based request:
- forward the ICN-based request to an ICN transport function on the apparatus;
- and
- compress ICN headers in the ICN-based request using Robust Header Compression (RoHC).
One or more non-transitory computer readable media carrying computer readable instructions that when executed by a processor on a User Equipment (UE), cause the processor to:
- indicate that the UE is Information Centric Networking (ICN) capable in an initial attach request sent by the UE;
- receive an assigned ICN name upon success of the initial attach request;
- receive a request from an application layer on the UE;
- determine whether the request is an ICN-based request using an ICN transport protocol or an Internet Protocol (IP)-based request using an IP transport protocol;
- and
- upon determining that the request comprises an ICN-based request:
- forward the ICN-based request to an ICN transport function on the UE;
- and
- compress ICN headers in the ICN-based request using Robust Header Compression (RoHC).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.