Research Article
Content Centricity in Constrained Cellular-Assisted D2D Communications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_12, author={Salah-Eddine Belouanas and Kim-Loan Thai and Prom\^{e}th\^{e}e Spathis and Marcelo Amorim and Franck Rousseau and Andrzej Duda}, title={Content Centricity in Constrained Cellular-Assisted D2D Communications}, proceedings={Ad Hoc Networks. 6th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2014, Rhodes, Greece, August 18-19, 2014, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS}, year={2014}, month={11}, keywords={Opportunistic device-to-device communications Infrastructure wireless networks Content-centric networking Data offloading}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_12} }- Salah-Eddine Belouanas
Kim-Loan Thai
Prométhée Spathis
Marcelo Amorim
Franck Rousseau
Andrzej Duda
Year: 2014
Content Centricity in Constrained Cellular-Assisted D2D Communications
ADHOCNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_12
Abstract
The huge increase of mobile traffic in the latest years has put cellular networks under pressure. To face this situation, operators propose to adopt data offloading techniques based on device-to-device communications to alleviate their infrastructure. In this paper, we consider a specific scenario in which the cellular channel has severe capacity limitations. Existing offloading techniques focus on the underlying communication mechanisms and fail to properly manage the interest users have in . The straightforward approach to tackle this issue is to rely on the content-centric networking (CCN) paradigm. Nevertheless, the hybrid nature of our scenario makes this vision challenging—what should circulate through the cellular channel and what should remain within the opportunistic network? In this paper, we investigate our target scenario and identify a number of challenges therein. We finally define a high-level architecture that we intend to instantiate in the case of a public infrastructure scenario.