Author(s)

Rahul Shrimali¹, Hemal Shah¹, Riya Chauhan²

¹Ganpat University, Mehsana, Gujarat, India.
²PG School, GTU, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Over the last few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become an omnipresent term. The IoT expands the existing common concepts, anytime and anyplace to the connectivity for anything. The proliferation in IoT offers opportunities but may also bear risks. A hitherto neglected aspect is the possible increase in power consumption as smart devices in IoT applications are expected to be reachable by other devices at all times. This implies that the device is consuming electrical energy even when it is not in use for its primary function. Many researchers’ communities have started addressing storage ability like cache memory of smart devices using the concept called—Named Data Networking (NDN) to achieve better energy efficient communication model. In NDN, memory or buffer overflow is the common challenge especially when internal memory of node exceeds its limit and data with highest degree of freshness may not be accommodated and entire scenarios behaves like a traditional network. In such case, Data Caching is not performed by intermediate nodes to guarantee highest degree of freshness. On the periodical updates sent from data producers, it is exceedingly demanded that data consumers must get up to date information at cost of lease energy. Consequently, there is challenge in maintaining tradeoff between freshness energy consumption during Publisher-Subscriber interaction. In our work, we proposed the architecture to overcome cache strategy issue by Smart Caching Algorithm for improvement in memory management and data freshness. The smart caching strategy updates the data at precise interval by keeping garbage data into consideration. It is also observed from experiment that data redundancy can be easily obtained by ignoring/dropping data packets for the information which is not of interest by other participating nodes in network, ultimately leading to optimizing tradeoff between freshness and energy required.

Internet of Things (IoT), Named Data Networking, Smart Caching Table, Pending Interest, Forwarding Information Base, Content Store, Content Centric Networking, Information Centric Networking, Data & Interest Packets, SCTSmart Caching

Shrimali, R. , Shah, H. and Chauhan, R. (2017) Proposed Caching Scheme for Optimizing Trade-off between Freshness and Energy Consumption in Name Data Networking Based IoT. Advances in Internet of Things, 7, 11-24. doi: 10.4236/ait.2017.72002.