Local naming service for named data networking of things

Abstract

Resource-constrained IoT sensors deployed over NDN have to carry scalable and thus long names within length-limited packets for global use, which produces additional overhead in fragmentation and network traffic across layers. However, for a local IoT region, sensors normally offer relatively mono-service of sensing therefore the same prefix of names in a periodical manner. Based on this observation, we introduce a Local Naming Service (LNS) to convert name between specific long name and symbolic short one for support of both valid global communication and lightweight local transmission. LNS explores the potential of name conversion on the fly while preserving data authentication in NDN packets.