User behavior in the Internet has changed over the recent years towards being driven by exchanging and accessing information. Many advances in networking technologies have utilized this change by focusing on the content of an exchange rather than on the endpoints exchanging the content, in particular to better support mobility. Network coding and information-centric networking are two examples of these trends, each being developed largely independently thus far. This paper brings these areas together at the internetworking layer. We outline opportunities for applying network coding in a novel and performance-enhancing way that could push forward the case for information-centric networking itself.
Montpetit et al. REF studied the applications of network coding in Information-Centric Networks (ICN).
Network coding meets information-centric networking: an architectural case for information dispersion through native network coding
NoM '12
Computer Science