Ccn name patterns

A network device to execute a method for enabling processing of regular expressions as part of a hierarchical CCN name, where regular expressions are sequences of characters that form a search pattern, the method to process regular expressions utilized in a one to many scenario between a plurality of CCN clients and at least one CCN serving node, the network device comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium configured to store a CCN forwarding layer and a CCN naming layer;
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• a network processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, the network processor configured to execute the CCN forwarding layer and the CCN naming layer, the CCN Naming layer configured to receive a CCN interest from the CCN forwarding layer, to access a forwarding information base (FIB) to find FIB entries matching a path of the CCN name and the regular expression, to access a content store to find content objects matching the FIB entries, and to create a new CCN interest for each of the FIB entries not found in the content store.

A computing device executing a plurality of virtual machines for implementing network function virtualization (NFV), wherein a virtual machine from the plurality of virtual machines is configured to execute a method for enabling processing of regular expressions as part of a hierarchical CCN name, where regular expressions are sequences of characters that form a search pattern, the method to process regular expressions utilized in a one to many scenario between a plurality of CCN clients and at least one CCN serving node, the computing device comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium configured to store a CCN forwarding layer and a CCN naming layer;
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• a processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, the processor configured to execute the CCN forwarding layer and the CCN naming layer, the CCN Naming layer configured to receive a CCN interest from the CCN forwarding layer, to access a forwarding information base (FIB) to find FIB entries matching a path of the CCN name and the regular expression, to access a content store to find content objects matching the FIB entries, and to create a new CCN interest for each of the FIB entries not found in the content store.

A control plane device configured to implement at least one centralized control plane for a software defined network (SDN), the centralized control plane configured to execute a method for enabling processing of regular expressions as part of a hierarchical CCN name, where regular expressions are sequences of characters that form a search pattern, the method to process regular expressions utilized in a one to many scenario between a plurality of CCN clients and at least one CCN serving node, the computing device comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium configured to store a CCN forwarding layer and a CCN naming layer;
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• a processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, the processor configured to execute the CCN forwarding layer and the CCN naming layer, the CCN Naming layer configured to receive a CCN interest from the CCN forwarding layer, to access a forwarding information base (FIB) to find FIB entries matching a path of the CCN name and the regular expression, to access a content store to find content objects matching the FIB entries, and to create a new CCN interest for each of the FIB entries not found in the content store.