On the Use of Naming Scheme for Controlling Flying Router in Information Centric Networking

Recently, Information-Centric Networking (ICN), is attracting attention as a network capable of flexible communication especially in IoT mobility environments. As a research on flexible controls in ICN, we have been involved in a movable router using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones (called Flying Routers (FRs)) to realize communication in disjoint networks. In previous studies, control of Flying Routers was targeted reactively where FRs move according to the events on receiving Interest or Data. However, in order to realize a collaborative movement strategy such as content retrieval in consideration of cooperation by multiple FRs, more strategic ways which directly control FRs according to decision of path optimization. For this purpose, in this paper, we design a communication control system which strategically controls FRs by sending explicit Interests. We incorporates ICN technologies in the design of the system: naming scheme and strategy layer, which enable flexible control over FRs. Furthermore, we present a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) implementation of the system to confirm the feasibility of the design.