Information-centric service mesh for autonomous in-network computing

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an information-centric service mesh for autonomous in-network computing. The information-centric service mesh offers service-centric networking, not connectivity-based networking provided by the current container orchestration, like Kubernetes (K8s). We implement the information-centric service mesh by adopting an ambassador container style and using Cefore and Cefpyco which is the CCNx software implementation developed by NICT in Japan. For the proof-of-concept test, we demonstrate the end-to-end delay of more complex service chain models (up to 17 nodes) on our K8s cluster.