SoCCeR: Services Over Content-Centric Routing

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) and Service-Centric Networking (SCN) are two novel paradigms that seek to change the way content and services are perceived. CCN is centered around content distribution, while SCN focuses on dynamic customization of in-network services. The authors present SoCCeR-Services over Content-Centric Routing. SoCCeR extends CCN with integrated support for service routing decisions leveraging ant-colony optimization. SoCCeR adds a control layer on top of CCN for the manipulation of the underlying Forwarding Information Base (FIB). Without affecting content request and retrieval functionality of CCN, SoCCeR adds SCN functionality to CCN.