Dagstuhl Seminar on Information-Centric Networking
I am co-organizing a Dagstuhl seminar on information-centric networking, together with colleagues from the SAIL and CCN project. The seminar will take place on 05.12.2010 - 08.12.2010.
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is one of the significant directions of current networking research. In ICN, the principal paradigm is not end-to-end communication between hosts - as it is in the current Internet architecture. Instead, the increasing amount of content that must be distributed requires alternatives: Architectures that work with information objects as a first-class abstraction; focusing on the properties of such objects and receivers' interests to achieve efficient and reliable distribution of such objects. Such architectures make in-network storage, multiparty communication through replication, and interaction models such as publish-subscribe generally available for all kinds of applications, without having to resort to dedicated systems such as peer-to-peer overlays and proprietary content-distribution networks.
Details on the seminar: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=10492