Title: MECProMo: producer mobility management based on MEC in named data networking

Authors: Zhuo Li; Da Wu; Yachun Mao; Hao Xun; Yu Zhang; Teng Liang; Peng Luo; Kaihua Liu

Addresses: School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China; Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology, Tianjin, China ' School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology, Tianjin, China ' School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology, Tianjin, China ' School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology, Tianjin, China ' Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China; Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China ' Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China ' State Grid Hebei Electric Power Research Institute, Shijiazhuang, China ' Tianjin Digital Information Technology Research Center, Tianjin, China; Tianjin Ren'ai College, Tianjin, China

Abstract: In recent years, with the rapid development of the internet and mobile communication technologies, the mobility issues in traditional IP network architecture have significantly affected the efficiency of task offloading. Therefore, named data networking (NDN) has been proposed, which provides native support for consumer mobility through its receiver-driven content retrieval model. However, producer mobility is still a challenging problem, and the current solutions all have the disadvantage of introducing additional issues. To this end, this paper proposes and comprehensively analyses a scalable mobility management mechanism MECProMo, which combines the characteristics of mobile edge computing (MEC) and NDN network, and utilises the stateful forwarding plane of NDN to promote producer mobility. Combined with MEC, a temporary forwarding path is established on the name-based NDN data plane. Simulation results of ndnSIM show that compared with other schemes, MECProMo reduces the average packet loss rate by 89.04% and 94.54% respectively.

Keywords: named data networking; NDN; producer mobility; mobile edge computing; MEC.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2024.140666

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2024 Vol.47 No.1, pp.1 - 16

Received: 01 Mar 2024
Accepted: 01 May 2024
Published online: 29 Aug 2024 *

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