Robust and efficient multipath Interest forwarding for NDN-based MANETs

Named data networking (NDN) paradigm solves various issues of current TCP/IP based Internet and considers as a good candidate for future Internet architecture. It has a simple communication mechanism based on named contents instead of their physical locations. In NDN-based mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), the participating nodes have limited resources. Interest message flooding is a key research issue in this area. Due to Interest message flooding, the participant nodes frequently take part in the forwarding process and die earlier because of limited remaining energy. In this study, by leverages the benefits of NDN paradigm, we have proposed a new scheme, named robust and efficient multipath Interest forwarding (REMIF) for NDN-based MANETs. Performance of the proposed REMIF scheme is investigated by using ndnSIM. The results show that proposed scheme performs better in terms of content download time and the total number of Interest messages injected in the network.