PACKET FORMAT AND COMMUNICATION METHOD OF NETWORK NODE FOR IP ROUTING COMPATIBILITY AND NETWORK NODE THEREFOR

• US 20140146819A1
• Filed: 11/26/2013
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Byoung Joon, JANG, Myeong Wuk, BAE, Young In
• Granted Patent: US 9,628,378 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/392
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/306 Route determination based on the nature of the carried application
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A communication method of a network node for internet protocol (IP) routing compatibility, includes generating a packet including a name of a content that includes first information indicating a location of the content, and second information identifying the content, and transmitting the generated packet.

Claims

1. A communication method of a network node for internet protocol (IP) routing compatibility, the method comprising:

generating a packet comprising a name of a content that comprises first information indicating a location of the content, and second information identifying the content; and

transmitting the generated packet.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises an IP address, or a unique number, or a unique character, or a unique number string, or a unique character string, or any combination thereof, of a network node in which the content is stored.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second information comprises a hierarchical name of the content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a portion of the first information or the second information comprises a globally routable name.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the packet is generated in a form of a content-centric network packet or an information-centric network packet.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the packet corresponds to an IP packet; and

the packet comprises a data field comprising

a destination address field comprising the first information, and

an options and padding field comprising the second information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the packet corresponds to an IP packet, and

the packet comprises a data field comprising an options and padding field that comprises the first information and the second information.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program comprising instructions to cause a computer to perform the method of claim 1.

9. A communication method of a network node for internet protocol (IP) routing compatibility, the method comprising:

receiving a packet comprising a name of a content that comprises first information indicating a location of the content, and second information identifying the content;

extracting the second information from the packet; and

forwarding the packet to another network node based on whether the content corresponding to the second information is stored in the network node.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining whether the packet corresponds to a content-centric network packet.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining whether the packet corresponds to a content-centric network (CCN) packet based on a protocol field of an IP header of the packet.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining whether the content corresponding to the second information is present in a content store (CS) in response to the packet being determined to correspond to the CCN packet; and

transmitting the content based on a result of the determining of whether the content corresponding to the second information is present in the CS.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining whether information of an interface that corresponds to the second information is present in a pending interest table (PIT) in response to the content corresponding to the second information being determined to be absent in the CS; and

updating the PIT with information of an incoming interface from which the packet is received based on a result of the determining of whether the information of the interface that corresponds to the second information is present in the PIT.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

forwarding the packet to an interface of an entry matching the first information among entries of a forwarding information base in response to the information of the interface that corresponds to the second information being determined to be absent in the PIT.

15. A network node for internet protocol (IP) routing compatibility, the network node comprising:

a content store (CS) configured to store a content corresponding to second information identifying the content; and

a forwarding information base configured to store information of an interface that corresponds to first information indicating a location of the content, and be used to forward, to the interface, a packet comprising the first information and the second information in response to an entry corresponding to the second information being absent in a pending interest table (PIT).

16. The network node of claim 15, wherein the PIT is configured to indicate that the content has been requested by the network node, using the second information, in response to the content being absent in the CS.

17. The network node of claim 15, wherein the network node is configured to update, in the PIT, information of an incoming interface from which the packet is received based on the second information.

18. The network node of claim 15, wherein the packet comprises a name of the content that comprises the first information and the second information.

19. The network node of claim 15, wherein the first information comprises an IP address, or a unique number, or a unique character, or a unique number string, or a unique character string, or any combination thereof, of a network node in which the content is stored.

20. The network node of claim 15, wherein the second information comprises a hierarchical name of the content.