Moving to Content-Centric Networks

Content-Centric Networks have been designed for the shift in the focus of the Internet from being a point-to-point IP network to a Content Store-and-Forward network based on naming the content, not the location. Requesting by name, rather than location allows content caching to be integrated as a fundamental part of the network infrastructure. This paper projects a future with a Tele-Content provider based on a Content-Centric Network infrastructure, and shows how the links between users, applications, and service providers change to support this new type of network infrastructure.