PLR: An In-Network Proactive Loss Recovery Scheme for Named Data Networking

With potential advantages over TCP/IP for content delivery, mobility, and security, Named Data Networking (NDN) has become a promising architecture for the next-generation network. However, its poor performance in reliable transmission is still an unsolved problem. Many existing schemes in NDN employ inaccurate retransmission timeouts calculated with RTTs from diverse content sources to detect packet loss, which is lagging and may deteriorate transmission performance. Besides, after identifying the loss, the consumer costly resends the request to recover it, further increasing recovery time. In this paper, we propose an in-network Proactive Loss Recovery (PLR) scheme, which provides an efficient in-network method for timely detection and proactive recovery of lost packets. Deployed on each router, PLR detects the loss by monitoring queue status and sends high-priority explicit feedback to notify consumers of loss events timely. Meanwhile, lost packets are stored in each router's cache and will be retransmitted at an adaptive rate based on the detected remaining bandwidth. The simulation shows that PLR can vastly reduce the number of retransmissions on consumers, and the content completion time can be decreased by up to 21.8% compared with the baseline.