CSF: Controller Based Selective Forwarding in Software Defined Named Data Based MANETs

Abstract

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is the more reliable and flexible networking architecture. Due to its programmable nature, it is getting more popular in every research domain of Computing. Moreover, Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture is also more beneficial and emerging technology of Internet. NDN focuses on the content name instead of its location and replaces the usage of IP addresses. Lot of research has been made to integrate SDN and NDN due to their benefits of better management-ability, flexibility, less complexity, centralized control, decoupled control and data planes etc. Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is also getting more popular due to huge advancement in Mobile communication devices. Combining SDN and NDN in MANET will resolve lots of problems (i.e. forwarding, mobility, management etc.) which are difficult to tackle with single architecture. Broadcast Storm is always a challenging issue in Ad Hoc networks like MANET. In this paper, we proposed a Controller based Selective Forwarding (CSF) scheme by merging SDN, NDN and MANET to overcome the Broadcast Storm Problem (BSP) and other issues caused by BSP. CSF is evaluated using different simulation parameters which shows superiority over the Native ND-MANET in reference to BSP.