Mobility Support Challenges for the Integration of 5G and IoT in Named Data Networking

Named Data Networking is a consumer-driven network that supports content consumer mobility due to the nature of in-network catching. Consumer mobility was inherently supported in NDN while producer mobility was not supported, also faces many challenges from initial architectural design. Therefore, there is needs to provide substantial producer mobility support to minimize the handoff latency, handoff signaling overhead cost, reduce the unnecessary Interest packets loss to improve data packets delivery once a content producer relocated. In this paper, the Broadcasting Approach is proposed as a solution to the problem of the mobile producer in NDN. Consequently, the result may solve the inherited problems of triangular routing in NDN network mobility. Also, may have significant implication to support the integration of 5G, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET), Delay-Tolerant Network, Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANET) and IoT network into NDN for mobile application without a special mechanism.