Exploiting content centric networking to develop topic-based, publish-subscribe MANET systems

— Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) connect mobile wireless devices without an underlying communication infrastructure. Communications occur in a multi-hop fashion, using mobile devices as routers. Several MANET distributed applications require to exchange data (GPS position, messages, pictures, etc.) by using a topic-based publish-subscribe interaction. Participants of these applications can publish information items on a given topic (identified by a name) and can subscribe to a topic to receive the related published information. An efficient dissemination of publish-subscribe data in MANET environments demands for robust systems, able to face radio resource scarcity, network partitioning, frequent topology changes. Many MANET publish-subscribe systems have been proposed so far in the literature assuming an underlying TCP/IP network. In this paper, we discuss the benefits of building a MANET publish-subscribe system exploiting Content Centric Networking (CCN) technology, rather than T...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: ADHOC
• Authors: Andrea Detti, Dimitri Tassetto, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Francesco Fedi
• Keywords: ADHOC 2015, Applied Computing