Secure Content Centric Mobile Network

Rapid advancements of wireless technologies allow users to access real-time data, and stay connected with friends and business while they are on the move. However, most emerging mobile applications assume users have cellular data services, and hence not everyone can enjoy new mobile applications. In addition, some emerging mobile applications e.g. mobile recommender system are data-centric but existing IP oriented communication paradigms are not flexible enough to support such applications. In this paper, we present a new secure content centric mobile network that supports content centric communication paradigm. Users can exchange information using peer to peer mode without having to rely on cellular data services. Content-centric security solution is provided where data owners can share encrypted published data items with others without knowing a priori who the interested users may be. Our preliminary prototype deployed in the ORBIT testbed demonstrates some of the key features we have designed.