Temporal caching for icn

A network device to implement a method for providing temporal caching in a content centric networking (CCN) network, the network device implementing a CCN node, the method to fetch and cache a group of content objects having a temporal relationship, the network device comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein a temporal caching analysis module;
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• a processor coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the processor configured to execute the temporal caching analysis module, the temporal caching analysis module configured to select a first CCN interest packet including a first CCN name of a first content object from the group of content objects, to add an entry for the first CCN name to a correlation table, to select at least a second CCN interest packet including a second CCN name of a second content object from the group of content objects, to correlate the second CCN name with the first CCN name by determining a request sequence for the first content object and the second content object, and to update the entry to correlate the first CCN name with the second CCN name.

A computing device to execute 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 providing temporal caching in a content centric networking (CCN) network, the network device implementing a CCN node, the method to fetch and cache a group of content objects having a temporal relationship, the computing device comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein a temporal caching analysis module;
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• a processor coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the processor configured to execute the virtual machine, the virtual machine configured to execute the temporal caching analysis module, the temporal caching analysis module configured to select a first CCN interest packet including a first CCN name of a first content object from the group of content objects, to add an entry for the first CCN name to a correlation table, to receive at least a second CCN interest packet including a second CCN name of a second content object from the group of content objects, to correlate the second CCN name with the first CCN name by determining a request sequence for the first content object and the second content object, and to update the entry to correlate the first CCN name with the second CCN name.

A control plane device to implement a control plane of a software defined networking (SDN) network, the SDN network including a plurality of network devices implementing the data plane of the SDN network, wherein control plane device is configured to execute a method for providing temporal caching in a content centric networking (CCN) network, the method to fetch and cache a group of content objects having a temporal relationship, the control plane device comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein a temporal caching analysis module;
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• a processor coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the processor configured to execute the temporal caching analysis module, the temporal caching analysis module configured to select a first CCN interest packet including a first CCN name of a first content object from the group of content objects, to add an entry for the first CCN name to a correlation table, to select at least a second CCN interest packet including a second CCN name of a second content object from the group of content objects, to correlate the second CCN name with the first CCN name by determining a request sequence for the first content object and the second content object, and to update the entry to correlate the first CCN name with the second CCN name.