Information-Centric Networking Application to Maritime Satellite Communications

The expansion of the maritime industry with the increase of ship data traffic calls for the support of satellite communications not only for bandwidth-hungry applications for passengers and crew but also for Internet of Things applications. In this paper, we address the problem of efficiently managing the distribution of the vast amount of sensor data from ships to remote control centers and harbor authorities. An efficient solution to tackle this problem is adopting an Information-Centric Networking (ICN) approach. ICN is based here on Named Data Networking (NDN), which is one of the most efficient ICN approaches. We propose an efficient naming scheme for NDN, where the processing of local data from sensors allows improving the mean delay to deliver the sensor data. A simulation approach has allowed us to validate our proposed approach against the hierarchical naming scheme of NDN.