TEMPORAL CACHING FOR ICN

A method provides temporal caching in a content centric networking (CCN) network. The temporal caching is implemented by a CCN node. The method fetches and caches a group of content objects having a temporal relationship. The method includes selecting a first CCN interest packet including a first CCN name of a first content object from the group of content objects, adding an entry for the first CCN name to a correlation table, and selecting at least a second CCN interest packet including a second CCN name of a second content object from the group of content objects. The method further includes correlating the second CCN name with the first CCN name by determining a request sequence for the first content object and the second content object, and updating the entry to correlate the first CCN name with the second CCN name.