DCDS: Data centric dispatcher selection protocol for cellular enabled VANET communication

The Vehicular Ad‐hoc Network (VANET) is one of the emerging research areas in recent days, in which accomplishing the robustness and security are the demanding tasks. To obtain these objectives, various offloading‐based techniques are developed in the traditional works. Still, it remains with the limitations of high mobility, no assurance for data acceptance, and limited applicability for multiple data exchange units. Thus, this paper aims to develop a Data Centric Dispatcher Selection (DCDS) algorithm based on data offloading for a secure information exchange in VANET. It aims to enable the cellular‐based VANET connection by using the application layer protocol without taking the Pending Interest (PI)‐based information. Also, the Content Centric Network (CCN) concept is utilized to exchange the data between for upcoming internet. In this environment, the position of own vehicle and neighboring vehicle are known to each vehicle by using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and security messages. Moreover, the communication does not depend on the device's name, but it depends on the content name in CCN. Because of the availability of multiple interfaces in CCN, there is no content loss in the network. During simulation, various performance measures are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed technique, which includes throughput, packet loss rate, average end‐to‐end delay, total Satisfied Interest Packet (SIP), Forwarded Interest Packet (FIP), and average Interest Satisfactory Delay (ISD). Also, the superiority of this paper is proved by comparing it with some existing techniques such as Internet Protocol Television Quality of Service (IPTV‐QoS), Michael Oche (MO), and RobUst Forwarder Selection (RUFs).     

End‐to‐end mobility support in content centric networks

Content‐centric networking (CCN) has been recently proposed as an alternative to traditional IP‐based networking. In CCN, content is accessed by content name instead of a host identifier (locational identifier). This new type of access methodology rapidly and efficiently disseminates content in combination with the in‐network caching mechanism. For practical use of CCN, many network properties studied in IP‐based networking are being revisited, and new types of CCN architecture components are being designed. Although mobility is an essential aspect of the future networking system, it has not been sufficiently studied. We therefore address fundamental mobility issues, such as seamless handover, optimal access point selection, network mobility, and handling of persistent interests. In addition, for each issue, we propose practical solutions that efficiently align to a CCN environment. To ensure seamless handoff, we propose various handoff schemes and compare their performance in terms of handoff latency using packet‐level simulation. Because our proposed schemes are consistent with the characteristics and rules of CCN, we believe that they can easily be integrated as a part of CCN. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

内容中心网络中基于点击量的内容提供机制研究(英文)

In-network caching and Interest packets aggregation are two important features of Content-Centric Networking(CCN).CCN routers can directly respond to the Interest request by Content Store(CS)and aggregate the same Interest packets by Pending Interest Table(PIT).In this way,most popular content requests will not reach the origin content server.Thus,content providers will be unaware of the actual usages of their contents in network.This new network paradigm presents content providers with unprecedented challenge.It will bring a great impact on existing mature business model of content providers,such as advertising revenue model based on hits amount.To leverage the advantages of CCN and the realistic business needs of content providers,we explore the hits-based content provisioning mechanism in CCN.The proposed approaches can avoid the unprecedented impact on content providers' existing business model and promote content providers to embrace the real deployment of CCN network.     

Push applications and dynamic content generation over content‐centric networking

Content‐Centric Networking (CCN) represents an established candidate for the future Internet, proposing a routing architecture designed to elevate content to first class entity. Starting from the fact that the network usage has dramatically evolved towards content retrieval, CCN relies on an on‐demand pull based mechanism to transfer data from the different sources to the heterogeneous consumers. This paradigm enhances the network in a number of ways, ranging from the newly introduced in‐network caching capabilities to the benefits provided by the symmetric data routing adopted by CCN. In this renewed network scenario, we place our attention to those applications that do not perfectly fit the pull paradigm, stating that they need to be supported as well and proposing an effective way to achieve scalability on large scale push applications. We provide the following contributions: (i) we identify the functions that a data‐centric architecture should support; (ii) propose and compare our solution with the state of the art framework designed for the specific problem of pushing data to content requesters; and (iii) evaluate their performance in terms of traffic generated and scalability achieved by simulating a real Internet Service Provider (ISP) topology and the realistic workload of a generic social network application. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Hybrid 802.11p-cellular architecture for NDN-based VANET

Vehicular network communications (VANET) face multiple challenges due to their intermittent connections and the rapid changes in their topologies. In recent years, several research efforts have explored the use of content-centric approaches to alleviate some of these challenges. One of these promising network designs is Named Data Networking (NDN), which has become a valid solution to support VANET applications. However, in the NDN architecture, the main forwarding mechanism for the interest packets is flooding. This forwarding mechanism will result in excessive collisions, which will lead to the broadcast storm problem. In this paper, we propose VC-NDN: a hybrid and hierarchical Named Data Networking architecture for VANETs. VC-NDN improves content retrieval efficiency through an adapted NDN-based communication model. VC-NDN includes a new interest forwarding scheme to reduce packet collision in the network and an efficient mechanism to support push-based traffic. Furthermore, to reduce communication costs, VC-NDN uses two communication technologies in parallel, namely, IEEE 802.11p and cellular communications, while keeping the usage of the cellular network at a minimum level. Finally, to reduce the impact on vehicle mobility, VC-NDN follows a hierarchical clustering architecture. Specifically, a density-based clustering algorithm is designed to create and maintain stable clusters with multihop communication capability. Our performance study shows that VC-NDN outperforms the basic VNDN solutions in terms of data retrieval delay and packet delivery ratio while minimizing the usage of the cellular network.     

基于节点介数和替换率的内容中心网络网内缓存策略

网内缓存技术是内容中心网络(CCN)的关键技术之一,CCN采用传统的ALWAYS缓存策略,会造成较大冗余。改进的Betw方案仅考虑了节点介数,容易造成高介数节点缓存更替频繁,内容可用性下降。为了解决这个问题,该文提出一种综合使用网络节点介数和节点缓存内容更替速率作为缓存决策度量的新型网内缓存策略BetwRep,通过权衡节点位置重要性和缓存内容时效性实现回传内容的最佳放置。最后,基于ndnSIM平台进行的网络仿真表明,该文提出的BetwRep缓存策略取得了比Betw方案和ALWAYS方案更低的源端请求负载和更少的平均跳数。     

软件定义网络安全研究

软件定义网络（SDN）采用控制和转发的分离架构,使研究者可以通过软件实现任意的网络控制逻辑,而不需对网络设备本身进行修改,具备极强的灵活性,已经在路由决策、网络虚拟化、无线接入、云计算数据中心网络等领域得到研究和应用,成为一项热点技术。但SDN在蓬勃发展的同时,也引入了新的安全风险,带来新的安全问题。另一方面,SDN也给传统安全技术以冲击,带来创新的网络安全应用发展的机会。鉴于此,结合SDN网络架构的特点综述了SDN安全的研究现状,包括SDN安全风险分析和安全技术及应用,并思考了SDN对信息安全的意义。     

SEAD: A simple and efficient adaptive data dissemination protocol in vehicular ad-hoc networks

Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is becoming a promising technology for improving the efficiency and the safety of intelligent transportation systems by deploying a wide variety of applications. Smart vehicles are expected to continuously exchange a huge amount of data either through safety or non-safety messages dedicated for road safety or infotainment and passenger comfort applications, respectively. One of the main challenges posed by the study of VANET is the data dissemination design by which messages have to be efficiently disseminated in a high vehicular speed, intermittent connectivity, and highly dynamic topology. In particular, broadcast mechanism should guarantee fast and reliable data delivery within a limited wireless bandwidth in order to fit the real time applications’ requirements. In this work, we propose a simple and efficient adaptive data dissemination protocol called “SEAD”. On the one hand, the originality of this work lies in its simplicity and efficiency regardless the application’s type. Simplicity is achieved through a beaconless strategy adopted to take into account the surrounding vehicles’ density. Thanks to a metric locally measured, each vehicle is able to dynamically define an appropriate probability of rebroadcast to mitigate the broadcast storm problem. Efficiency is manifested by reducing excessive retransmitted messages and hence promoting the network capacity and the transmission delay. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol offers very low packet drop ratio and network load while still maintaining a low end-to-end delay and a high packet delivery. On the other hand, SEAD protocol presents a robust data dissemination mechanism which is suitable either for safety applications or for other kinds of application. This mechanism is able to adapt the protocol performance in terms of packet delivery ratio to the application’s requirements.     

异构网络中基于移动社交组网的内容传播研究

Since more and more mobile applications are based on the proliferation of social information, the study of Mobile Social Net-works (MSNs) combines social sciences and wireless communications. Operating wireless networks more efficiently by exploiting social relationships between MSN users is an ap-pealing but challenging option for network operators. An MSN-aided content dissemina-tion technique is presented as a potential ex-tension of conventional cellular wireless net-works in order to satisfy growing data traffic. By allowing the MSN users to create a self-organized ad hoc network for spontane-ously disseminating contents, the network operator may be able to reduce the oper-ational costs and simultaneously achieve an improved network performance. In this paper, we first summarize the basic features of the MSN architecture, followed by a survey of the factors which may affect MSN-aided content dissemination. Using a case study, we demon-strate that one can save resources of the Base Station (BS) while substantially lowering content dissemination delay. Finally, other potential applications of MSN-aided content dissemination are introduced, and a range of future challenges are summarized.     

内容中心网络中基于内容迁移的协作缓存机制

内容中心网络(CCN)是为了适应未来网络通信模式的转变,提供对可扩展和高效内容获取的原生支持而提出一种新型的网络体系架构,内容缓存机制是其研究的关键问题之一。现有机制在缓存节点的选择时往往过于集中,缓存负载分布严重不均,大大降低了网络资源利用率以及系统的缓存性能。该文提出一种基于缓存迁移的协作缓存机制,首先在缓存节点选择时考虑节点的中心性保证内容尽可能缓存在位置更重要的节点。同时,在缓存压力过大时,通过可用缓存空间大小、缓存替换率以及网络连接的稳定性等信息选择合适的邻居节点进行缓存内容的转移,充分利用邻居资源实现负载分担。仿真结果表明该机制能有效地改善缓存负载在节点上分布的均衡性,提高缓存命中率和缓存资源利用率并降低平均接入代价。     

SDN‐DMM for intelligent mobility management in heterogeneous mobile IP networks

Mobility management applied to the traditional architecture of the Internet has become a great challenge because of the exponential growth in the number of devices that can connect to the network. This article proposes a Software‐Defined Networking (SDN)‐based architecture, called SDN‐DMM (SDN‐Distributed Mobility Management), that deals with the distributed mode of mobility management in heterogeneous access networks in a simplified and efficient way, ensuring mainly the continuity of IP sessions. Intent‐based mobility management with an IP mapping schema for mobile node identification offers optimized routing without tunneling techniques, hence, an efficient use of the network infrastructure. The simplified mobility control API reduces both signaling and handover latency costs and provides a better scalability and performance in comparison with traditional and SDN‐based DMM approaches. An analytical evaluation of such costs demonstrated the better performance of SDN‐DMM, and a proof of concept of the proposal was implemented in a real environment.     

Software defined vehicular networks: A comprehensive review

The recent breakthroughs in the automobile industries and telecommunication technologies along with the exceptional multimodal mobility services brought focus on intelligent transportation system (ITS), of which vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) gain much more attention. The distinctive features of software‐defined networking (SDN) leverages the vehicular networks by its state of the centralized art having a comprehensive view of the network. Its potential to bring the flexibility, programmability and other extensive advancements to vehicular networks has set the stage for a novel networking paradigm termed as software‐defined vehicular networks (SDVNs). Many researchers have demonstrated the SDN‐based VANETs with the various configuration of the SDN components in VANET architecture. However, a compilation of the work on the SDN‐based VANET system as a whole, incorporating its architecture, use‐cases, and opportunities, is still inadequate. We start with the summary of the recent studies that exist on the SDVNs, followed by the comprehensive explanation of its components. Next, we present the taxonomy of SDVN based on the architecture modes, protocols, access technologies, and opportunities with trending technologies. Finally, we highlight the challenges, open research issues, and future research directions.     

CCN基于内容的缓存策略

内容中心网络（Content Centric Networking,CCN）以内容为中心进行数据通讯,改变了当前互联网host-host通讯模型,并且具有网内缓存功能。为了解决网内数据协同缓存的难题,借鉴通讯模式的改革,建议以内容为中心缓存数据,提出以内容和缓存为中心的网络（Content＆Caching Centric Networking,CCCN）概念。经过大量理论分析和仿真实验,结果表明,在数据缓存和内容转发上CCCN是非常高效和可行的。     

内容中心网络中一种基于内容等级及流行度的缓存策略

网内缓存作为内容中心网络(CCN)的核心技术,越来越受到关注。为了提高网络的缓存性能以及用户对数据请求的满意度,该文提出一种基于内容等级及流行度的缓存策略(CLPC)。CLPC策略通过设置不同用户对内容的访问等级以及统计内容的访问频率,决定数据的缓存位置,并且设计了数据替换方法,在一定程度上保证了不同用户对不同数据的最优请求,同时提高了网络的性能。实验证明该策略与CEE+LRU, Prob(0.7)+LRU, Betw+LRU相比,能更好地提高缓存命中率、平均时延及源端命中率等网络缓存性能指标。     

内容中心网络中能耗优化的隐式协作缓存机制

综合考虑内容中心网络(CCN)的能耗优化及性能提升,该文提出一种内容中心网络中能耗优化的隐式协作缓存机制。缓存决策时,利用缓存节能量作为判决条件优先在用户远端节点缓存,并利用数据包携带最近上游缓存跳数信息进行隐式协作,减轻用户近端节点缓存空间的竞争压力,提高邻近节点缓存的差异性。缓存替换时,选取缓存节能量最小的缓存内容加以替换,达到最优的能耗优化效果。仿真结果表明,该缓存机制在性能上获得较优的缓存命中率及平均路由跳数,同时有效降低了网络能耗。     

一种支持网络功能演进的可重构数据平面

传统网络体系在安全、服务质量保证、流量调度等方面难以适应互联网的发展,而新型网络体系如SDN （Software Defined Networking）、NDN（Named Data Networking）等,由于路由器、交换机等传统网络设备电路固化,限制了新型网络功能的试验和部署。针对此问题,本文设计了支持网络功能演进的可重构数据平面（Reconfigurable Dataplane for network Function Evolution,RDFE）,通过插入用户配置单元的方式对数据包解析、匹配和处理过程进行编程,从而支持用户自定义的功能部署;其次,针对RDFE提出基于树型结构的解析映射和匹配映射算法,将用户定制功能映射到硬件结构中;最后,基于NetFPGA-10G板卡完成了RDFE的原型实现,与现有的Kangroo、EPC（Elastic Protocol Cus-tomizable）、LabelCast等方案相比具有更高的转发速率和更低的资源利用率。     

内容中心网络中基于差异化缓存通告的混合路由机制

针对内容中心网络(CCN)节点暂态缓存的高效利用问题,将数据场的思想引入到CCN转发决策中,该文提出一种基于差异化缓存通告的混合路由机制。缓存通告时,依据内容活跃等级和缓存驻留概率,执行差异化的内容通告和势能辐射;路由查找时,针对持久稳定的内容源和动态可变的临时缓存副本,分别构建全局导向和局域吸引势能辐射场,实现兴趣包请求的全局路由和局部就近应答。仿真结果表明,该机制减小了内容请求时延,提高了缓存命中率,以少量额外的开销提升了CCN网络整体的内容分发性能。     

Challenge-based collaborative intrusion detection in software-defined networking: an evaluation

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture that enables a computer network to be intelligently and centrally controlled via software applications. It can help manage the whole network environment in a consistent and holistic way, without the need of understanding the underlying network structure. At present, SDN may face many challenges like insider attacks, i.e., the centralized control plane would be attacked by malicious underlying devices and switches. To protect the security of SDN, effective detection approaches are indispensable. In the literature, challenge-based Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks (CIDNs) are an effective detection framework in identifying malicious nodes. It calculates the nodes’ reputation and detects a malicious node by sending out a special message called a challenge. In this work, we devise a challenge-based CIDN in SDN and measure its performance against malicious internal nodes. Our results demonstrate that such a mechanism can be effective in SDN environments.     

Efficient and secure business model for content centric network using elliptic curve cryptography

Initially, Internet has evolved as a resource sharing model where resources are identified by IP addresses. However, with rapid technological advancement, resources/hardware has become cheap and thus, the need of sharing hardware over Internet is reduced. Moreover, people are using Internet mainly for information exchange and hence, Internet has gradually shifted from resource sharing to information sharing model. To meet the recent growing demand of information exchange, Content Centric Network (CCN) is envisaged as a clean‐slate future network architecture which is specially destined for smooth content distribution over Internet. In CCN, content is easily made available using network caching mechanism which is misaligned with the existing business policy of content providers/publishers in IP‐based Internet. Hence, the transition from contemporary IP‐based Internet to CCN demands attention for redesigning the business policy of the content publishers/providers. In this paper, we have proposed efficient and secure communication protocols for flexible CCN business model to protect the existing business policies of the content publisher while maintaining the salient CCN features like in‐network content caching and Interest packet aggregation. To enhance the efficiency and security, the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is used. The proposed ECC‐based scheme is analyzed to show that it is resilient to relevant existing cryptographic attacks. The performance analysis in terms of less computation and communication overheads and increased efficiency is given. Moreover, a formal security verification of the proposed scheme is done using widely used AVISPA simulator and BAN logic that shows our scheme is well secured.     

Traffic differentiation support in vehicular delay-tolerant networks

Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networking (VDTN) is a Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN) based architecture concept for transit networks, where vehicles movement and their bundle relaying service is opportunistically exploited to enable non-real time applications, under environments prone to connectivity disruptions, network partitions and potentially long delays. In VDTNs, network resources may be limited, for instance due to physical constraints of the network nodes. In order to be able to prioritize applications traffic according to its requirements in such constrained scenarios, traffic differentiation mechanisms must be introduced at the VDTN architecture. This work considers a priority classes of service (CoS) model and investigates how different buffer management strategies can be combined with drop and scheduling policies, to provide strict priority based services, or to provide custom allocation of network resources. The efficiency and tradeoffs of these proposals is evaluated through extensive simulation.