An Efficient Lookup Search and Forwarding Mechanism for Information-Centric Networking (ICN)

Information-centric networking (ICN) is gradually becoming the alternative approach to the traditional Internet architecture through enlightening information (content) distribution on the Internet with content names. The growing rate of Internet traffic has adapted the content-centric architectures to better serve the user requirement of accessing data. Routing disseminates preliminary topology and strategy information as well as long-term changes in them and computes the routing table to coordinate the forwarding procedure. A good routing scheme is essential to reduce delay and to enhance the performance of the network with an efficient searching of the desired content item. In this paper, we present a novel scheme for ICN which evaluates the path for searching the desired content item with an efficient lookup process and we call as Intelligent Routing (IR). Our implement IR scheme utilizes the concept of ternary digital search for making an efficient lookup and evaluates the satisfaction score for making a forwarding decision. The simulation results recommend that IR scheme can reliably accomplish the better performance across other hashing and routing approaches proposed in this field.