Exploit the known or explore the unknown?

Abstract

Most Information Centric Networking designs propose the usage of widely distributed in-network storage. However, the huge amount of content exchanged in the Internet, and the volatility of content replicas cached across the network pose significant challenges to the definition of a scalable routing protocol able to address all available copies. In addition, the number of available copies of a given content item and their distribution among caches is clearly impacted by the request forwarding policy.