A design of alias naming scheme for namespace in named data networking

Abstract

Named Data Networking (NDN) has been considered as a promising networking technology that makes up for the limitation of current IP networking. However, due to its early stage, there are still a lot of open issues in NDN research. From the issues, the limitation of changing namespace keeps an application from modifying its namespace or adding additional namespace after once the namespace was fixed. In NDN, since the namespace of an application is tightly coupled with the routing paths of the application, this limitation is not easy to avoid. In order to resolve the issue, we suggest an alias naming scheme that enables several namespaces to coexist for the same application on NDN network. The evaluation showed the proposed scheme worked well as intended.