MERGING ICN (INFORMATION CENTRIC NETWORKS) INTO IOT (INTERNET OF THINGS): A SURVEY

Abstract

Internet of things gains a great hype in various environments from academic to industries in last few decades. The connectivity of each and every physical object to virtual environment internet creates great avenues for research. The growing number of the connected object raised the challenges in terms of heterogeneity, scalability, mobility and security and big data that they produce by following the host identification approach. In this regard new technologies have been proposed  that qualifies these challenges in various environments. One of the adopted technologies is Information centric Network (ICN) - the technique that is integrated in IOT’s. The target to integrate ICN in internet of things is to overcome the key challenges as it ensures the fulfillment of IOT’s requirements. In this piece of work, we have deep analysis of ICN as integrated part of IOT’s and also survey the related work to identify the methodologies that were adapted for the key factors of IOT using ICN frameworks.