Keynote

Management and Monitoring Challenges in Content-Centric Networking

Abstract. The current Internet paradigm and its core technologies have been designed to support connections between endpoints (hosts). It is widely deployed and IP management tools are largely used by network operators. Yet, nowadays user needs are not host-centric; users care about accessing content. Recent research activities for the Future Internet point to information-centric networking (ICN), centered on the production, consumption and transformation of information matching user interest, moving away from the current endpoint-oriented approach. Several ICN solutions are proposed and amongst them, Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is one of the most promising ones. However CCN networks will not be deployed by a network operator if no management solution is available. Having an efficient management system is a strong requirement to rapidly react to problems in the network. Furthermore, a network operator needs to be aware of the traffic transiting in its network and thus be able to monitor, classify and qualify it. Research on ICN started 5-6 years ago but there is not yet any significant effort on the management of such networks. It just started few months ago and a first proposal was presented in the 86^th IRTF ICNRG meeting, in March 2013. Since it is a critical issue, this talk will focus on it, with a network operator point of view. This talk will introduce the ICN paradigm, with a focus on the CCN solution. Then requirements and challenges for managing and monitoring the CCN network will be presented.