Realization of mobility-controlled flying router in information-centric networking

Constructing a large-scale network in outdoor fields with wired or wireless antennas involves a huge deployment cost. New devices, called movable routers, are able to realize the networks at a low cost. Recently, a large number of internet of things nodes have been deployed into the networks in outdoor fields. In the current communication network, users intend to communicate with devices without knowing where they are, but the current network still focuses on device locations, complicating configuration and implementation of the network. In this study, we design an architecture called router-movable information-centric networking (RMICN) to realize content-based communication instead of host-based communication, for facilitating communications between disjointed networks using movable routers. We incorporate information-centric networking technologies in the design of the system for the naming scheme and the strategy layer, enabling device control over the movable routers, called flying routers. In the simulation results, we show that RMICN can further reduce the response time of content requests compared with delay-tolerant networking. Furthermore, we present a proof-of-concept implementation of the architecture to confirm the feasibility of the design.