Support context-aware IoT content request in Information Centric networks

In Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as smart home and remote car maintenance, etc., a client usually requests a content with certain contextual requirements. Such contextual requirements need to be fulfilled by the returned content, otherwise the network bandwidth is wasted in transmitting the content that the client does not want. The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has regarded as the promising network architecture for IoT applications. But it lacks of the support of context-aware content retrieval. The paper proposes a context-aware solution that is integrated into the ICN infrastructure. The simulation results show the significant performance improvement of the proposed solution over random selection and round robin with different network settings.