ICN SUITABILITY FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the billions of hardware devices that connect to the internet around the world. Mobility support, interoperability, scalability, and security are critical challenges for the Internet of Things (IoT). Recent research shows that Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is an emerging paradigm as an alternative Future Internet architecture that has the potential to solve these problems holistically. The central premise behind ICN is a fundamental change from host-centric based communications to content-centric with name-driven networking primitives that natively support multicast, mobility, and content-oriented security. However, there remain challenges in securing the ICN-IoT. This document describes the deficiencies of existing Internet, an ICN architecture, the characteristics that make it well-suited for the IoT, then summarizes a proposed architecture for securely instantiating devices into edge networks.