A comparative study of content-centric and content-distribution networks: Performance and bounds

Abstract

The Content-Centric Networking paradigm aims at improving the Quality of Service of the Internet by providing innovative features to better handle digital content distribution. A major step towards the success of this novel paradigm is to analyze and compare its performance with respect to the most popular ways in which content is disseminated in today's IP Internet. In this paper we give clear answers to this critical issue by proposing a methodology to assess how the innovative design of Content-Centric Networking behaves as opposed to the solution proposed by Content-Distribution Networks. © 2013 IEEE.