Interworking of NDN with IoT architecture elements: Challenges and solutions

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem can immensely benefit from the Named Data Networking (NDN) paradigm. But interworking between the two paradigms is often challenged due to their intrinsic features. This paper attempts to identify the challenges, proposes their solutions to highlight the interworking of NDN with previously developed DataTweet IoT architecture elements. Our main contribution is in proposing a naming convention to create the interest packets in NDN from consumer systems. A prototype of the overall system is developed which is deployed in a real test bed. The performance evaluation strongly supports the proposed interworking.