System and method for compressing content centric networking messages

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

• selecting, from a message, a type-length-value (TLV) component to compress;
• searching a compression table for an entry that includes a prefix of the TLV component's value;
• obtaining a compression encoding for the TLV value from the compression table entry;
• generating a compressed block that corresponds to a compressed version of the TLV component, wherein the compressed block includes the compression encoding in place of the prefix in the TLV component's value;
• and
• generating a compressed message that includes the compressed block in place of the TLV component.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a computing device via a network interface, a compressed message;
• selecting a compression table associated with the interface;
• decompressing a message portion from a respective compressed block of the compressed message, using the compression table;
• in response to determining that the respective compressed block corresponds to a TLV component:
• computing a length of the message portion;
• and
• recreating the TLV component using the message portion and the computed length;
• and
• generating a decompressed message, which includes the TLV component in place of the compressed block.