Content-centric framework for Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) concentrates on content dissemination and retrieval, so it is significant to achieve efficient content delivery. However, the Internet focuses on end-to-end communications, which might degrade the content retrieval performance in mobile environments. By contrast, the content-centric mechanism might be an ideal method for achieving efficient content delivery although it suffers from flooding and reverse-path disruptions. Therefore, we are motivated to exploit the content-centric mechanism to achieve IoT-based content delivery, and employ the address-centric anycast to overcome the limitations of the content-centric mechanism. Inspired by the idea, we propose a content-centric framework for IoT. The experimental results show that the proposed framework reduces the content communication cost and improves the content acquisition success rate.