Interest broadcast suppression scheme for named data wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Named data networking (NDN) is one of the future networking architectures that communicates content using names, instead of the node addresses. It uses a very simple pull-based communication mechanism to retrieve content by sending an Interest message, and the node that has the required content or producer node replies with the data message. In wireless networks, the interest is flooded in the network to find the data provider node. The directional diffusion method is used to pull further content from the provider node. Due to broadcast nature and without node addresses, interest flooding causes network congestion and wastes network resources, especially bandwidth and battery power. These resources have prime importance in the case of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because all WSN nodes operate on battery and have limited bandwidth. In this paper, we propose an interest broadcast suppression scheme that considers interest holding time using the distance between forwarder and receiver of the interest, energy, angle, and distance from the beeline between consumer and the spatial region, to avoid broadcasting of unnecessary copies of Interest. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme mitigates the interest broadcast and conserves battery power of the wireless nodes compared with the state-of-the-art scheme in the domain.