## 1 Introduction  
The original intent behind the development of the Internet was to facilitate peer-to-peer communication and the sharing of data and resources. However, over time, there has been a significant shift towards content dissemination, driven by the exponential growth in networked devices, the increasing demand for content sharing, and the widespread usage of multimedia applications. Cisco's annual Internet report [1] projected that by 2023, the number of devices connected to IP networks would exceed three times the global population. Despite the Internet's remarkable success in enabling universal connectivity, its current architecture is not well equipped to handle the immense volume of network traffic generated by contemporary usage patterns, which heavily emphasize multimedia content distribution. Activities such as video streaming, imaging applications, surveillance, social networking, and cloud services dominate Internet usage, placing significant strain on an infrastructure originally designed for end-to-end communication. Another critical obstacle the current Internet architecture faces is the widespread use of mobile devices, wireless connections, and resource-constrained edge nodes like sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Traditional IP-based protocols, built for stable, fixed networks, struggle with dynamic wireless environments where mobility, link failures, and power constraints are common. The dual role of IP--as both a locator and an identifier--binds the network and transport layers, making seamless mobility difficult. When nodes move, sessions often break and must be re-established. Additionally, IP's role as the protocol stack's \"narrow waist\" limits content delivery efficiency, as it offers only best-effort service without built-in reliability, ordering, or state management. To overcome the current Internet's limitations, researchers have proposed clean-slate designs like information-centric networking (ICN), which has gained global traction [2]. ICN addresses key challenges such as data scalability, bandwidth efficiency, and security. Networking in ICN operates on an interest-driven model, meaning content is only transmitted when requested by a consumer. Conversely, publishers advertise their content to the network without specific knowledge of potential consumers, relying on the network to match interests with available content. Unlike traditional networking paradigms, ICN does not rely on identifying the locations of publishers or consumers; instead, it focuses on matching interests with content. This approach, combined with ICN's in-network caching capabilities, promises to deliver content with performance comparable to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) without requiring dedicated proprietary resources. Furthermore, today's Internet landscape is dominated by data-intensive services like multimedia streaming, online gaming, surveillance, wireless imaging, and teleconferencing. In addition, cutting-edge technologies such as the metaverse, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), holographic displays, and digital twins demand high-resolution, low-latency video content to deliver seamless interactions and foster a sense of presence within virtual environments. Enhanced video quality improves realism, user engagement, and comprehension, essential for AR/VR training simulations and collaborative digital twin environments [3]. In the metaverse, it enables expressive social interaction through clear gestures and facial cues [4]. All these multimedia-focused applications require satisfactory quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE), which ICN is well suited to support, leveraging features like in-network caching and multi-path transmission. It also effectively handles the massive, continuous data flow from IoT devices using its naming scheme and built-in data routing mechanisms [5]. While many survey papers explore the Future Internet domain, as described in the next section, none has examined the QoS and QoE dimensions within the realm of ICN.