Download PDFNames to Rule Them All: Unifying Mobile Networking via Named Secured Data
Tianyuan Yu, Zhiyi Zhang, Eric Newberry, Alexander Afanasyev, Giovanni Pau, Lan Wang, Lixia Zhang
Technical Report, NDN-0072
Revision 2
Over the last few decades, mobile networking technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds, especially in terms of wireless speeds and mobile device capabilities. Yet advanced mobility support for peer-to-peer networking with ad-hoc encounters, seamless integration with infrastructure, and in particular the ability to secure ad hoc mobile communication is yet to arrive. Today’s commonly-deployed mobile solutions rely heavily on cloud services over cellular connectivity, even when the communicating mobile entities are in close proximity to each other. Vehicular networking is an exemplifying use case of peer-to-peer networking with adhoc encounters, which also desires both strong security and seamless integration with infrastructure networks. We take this use case to motivate a new abstraction of networking, via exchanging semantically named and secured data instead of pushing packets to numeric IP addresses. We illustrate how this new abstraction can effectively support vehicular networking, unify mobile ad-hoc and infrastructure communications by the same network protocol, and build security support into all communications. We also illustrate how this new direction of networking can keep local communications local and support the diverse set of today’s vehicular applications, with a potential to support those that are yet to come.