On-demand mobility support with anchor chains in information centric networks

In this paper, we propose a decentralized mobility support architecture, with micro-level name resolution, for information centric networking (ICN) to better manage host mobility, and respond quickly to handover events to avoid data loss. Proposed architecture utilizes localized anchors, carrying new data structures, during packet forwarding to aggregate mobile flows and provide a combination of stateful and stateless forwarding that improves forwarding efficiency. Performance analysis of the proposed architecture suggests up to 30% improvement in forwarding capacity despite the resulting path stretch with the use of on-path anchors, while offering latency guarantees proportional to perceived handover latency.