CAT: A Last Mile Protocol for Content-Centric Networks

摘要

In recent years, content-oriented networking has become an active area of research. However, the content-oriented networking proposals often envision using their own custom protocols also for the last mile communication between the client and the core network, which makes the technologies hard to adopt. In this paper, we present a novel content-aware publish-subscribe protocol called CAT, which is designed to act as a common last mile protocol between the user and different content-oriented networks. We discuss how CAT protocol can be implemented with HTTP, and consider the salient performance issues.