A global review of routing mechanisms in the named data network

Abstract

Named Data Networking (NDN) is the future architecture for the internet, as it should have a good design routing to handle massive node connections with different behaviors. Routing is an important part of NDN since it configures the topology as well as policies, and manages long-term changes to the forwarding table. However, routing protocols are burdened with many challenges that reduce the connection performance. This paper investigates and critically evaluates the classification of NDN routing plane researches. Also, this paper classifies all types of routing protocols that exist in the literature. To our best knowledge, this is the first review that identifies the major challenges, such as routing overhead, in all NDN routing protocol types. This review will serve as guidelines for our future work in NDN routing research.

Keywords

• named data network
• routing
• softwar defined network
• routing overhead