A Cuckoo Filter-Based Name Resolution and Routing Method in Information-Centric Networking

Abstract

Information-centric networking (ICN) is a new network architecture that routes content based on names to improve transmission performance. Therefore, the efficiency of name resolution and routing becomes a critical issue in ICN. The bloom filter-based routing scheme has gained significant attention for its ability to improve the memory efficiency of routing nodes in the network, but it cannot handle the movement or deletion of content and has a high false positive rate, which increases bandwidth consumption. In this paper, we propose a cuckoo filter-based name resolution and routing method where resolution requests are forwarded through a hierarchical network structure to the node closest to the content copy as much as possible to minimize latency. This method achieves reliable content removal and allows summaries of content to be exchanged between nodes for resolution error correction and information synchronization based on a modified cuckoo filter. The simulation results show that our method can effectively reduce the number of false positives, and it can reduce the additional overhead caused by processing false positives for a large-scale network by 50% compared with the bloom filter-based scheme.