Analyzing Gateways' Impact on Caching for Micro CDNs based on CCN

Content Centric Networking (CCN) is a new architecture for a future Internet. CCN is a clean-state architecture that targets the distribution of content. As such, content is located at the heart of the architecture and CCN includes two main features: communication led by names and caches everywhere. Nevertheless, CCN has been criticized due to the economical cost of replacing every IP router with a CCN router. As such, we assume that CCN will be used for small content delivery networks –Micro CDNs– located in the ISP facilities: it has already been shown that with only 100MB of caches in the ISP facilities, the ISP traffic to the Internet can be reduced by 25%. As a matter of fact, if CCN is deployed as a Micro CDN, gateways must exist to interconnect the CDN network with the Internet. In this paper, we study the advantages of using multiple gateways against a single gateway and its impact on the caching features. Our results show that multiple gateways are beneficial not only because they improve the performance of caches but also because the load of the network get distributed across several nodes.