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ABSTRACT Information-centric networking (ICN) is a novel networking paradigm which is attracting increasing attention by both academic and industrial researchers. In fact, it promises to provide technological solutions that best fit with the way in which Internet is actually utilized. Assessment of proposed solutions require appropriate experimental testbeds. In this context OpenFlow, which has been developed to enable the deployment of novel networking solutions in the actual network infrastructure, represents a valuable tool. Accordingly, we are currently implementing an ICN solution - called CONET - for OpenFlow networks. The solution will be deployed in two testbeds, part of larger experimental OpenFlow facility distributed across Europe realized by the EU funded OFELIA project. In particular one testbed will be based on the Open vSwitch platform while the other will be deployed on NetFPGA platforms. Our implementation has been designed to easily support other ICN solutions with simple modification of the code. Basic ICN functionality that are specifically addressed in our implementation are data naming, route-by-name, and in-network caching.

Page 1. The CONET solution for Information Centric Networking Technical Report - Version 0.4, January 2012 N. Blefari Melazzi (1) , M. Cancellieri (1) , A. Detti (1) , M. Pomposini (1) , S. Salsano (1) (1) University of Rome “Tor Vergata” ...

ABSTRACT Originally conceived as a “network of hosts”, the Internet is evolving into an Internet of services, an Internet of media, an Internet of people and an Internet of “things”. This implies a strategic shift from “host-centric” to “content-centric” and “data-centric” networking. CONVERGENCE proposes to enhance the Internet with a novel, information-centric, publish-subscribe service model, based on the Versatile Digital Item (VDI): a common container for all kinds of digital content, derived from the MPEG-21 standard. Results in terms of standardization activities and software implementation are presented.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of the application level multicasting, named overlay multicasting, with respect to the network layer one in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). With respect to the network layer multicasting in overlay multicasting, only the mobile nodes participating in the multicast group have exploited the multicast routing at the application level while the other nodes of the

The small size and power consumption of IEEE 802.15.4 devices allows embedding them in GSM/UMTS U-SIM cards and/or SD cards. The availability of such technology for data exchange within mobile phones is very useful to complement GSM/UMTS services, providing proximity services, such as chat and advertisements in a shopping mall, configuration data, micro-payments, access control. In addition, once that we