Efficient mobility support for content delivery in mobile communications

Due to the rapid evolution of the Internet to support content-centric devices and applications, more focus is on the content itself instead of the location of the content source. Content consumer mobility is an important aspect of content-centric networking (CCN) and future networks, but it has not been sufficiently studied. In this paper, we demonstrate that CCN can support faster communication services and provide uninterrupted data delivery in the 4G network and also in the upcoming 5G network. We propose an approach to integrate the CCN and LTE with high and seamless data delivery efficiency. We further propose a mobility management mechanism to support the network diversity by leveraging the abundant computation resources in the LTE network. To ensure seamless data delivery, we evaluate the performance of our proposed mechanism in terms of data transmission success ratio.