Status-Aware Resource Adaptation in Znformation-Centric and Software-Defined Network

In recent years, realising a ＂clean- state＂ design for the future Internet has become an important research focus. An architecture com- bining an Information-Centric Network （ICN） and Sottware-Defmed Network （SDN） （IC-SDN） has gradually attracted more attention. How- ever, the existing studies regarding IC-SDN still lack support in terms of the ＂network status awareness＂ function, resulting in unreasonable resource allocation. In this paper, we propose a new status-aware resource adaptation sche- me, i.e. a status-aware module is embedded into basic elements （Forwarding Node （FN） and Resource adaption Manager （RM））. The FNs collect the network status dynamically for the controller to reallocate network resources accor- ding to the fluctuations in environmental con- ditions. Simulation results show that, compared with the existing IC-SDN mechanism, the pro- posed scheme reduced the link bandwidth var- iance by 56% and the content delivery latency by 40%. The proof-of-concept implementation demonstrates the fea