# Subject:Information-Centric Networking

**Source**: https://projects.scss.tcd.ie/subject_area/information-centric-networking/
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The current Internet architecture assumes communication based on the identity of hosts e.g. the name/IP address of a webserver in a URL. Individual clients connect to specific servers to retrieve documents and videos. Information-centric networking instead assumes that content is the focus of communication and is uniquely named in networks e.g. a consumer asks a … [Read more](https://projects.scss.tcd.ie/project/web-browser-server-for-information-centric-networking/ "[Taken] Web-Browser and Server for Information-Centric Networking")

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Background I’m happy to consider compelling project proposals that involve hardware, networking, security or wireless technologies. Ideally they will be well aligned with my research interests. Please get in touch In recent years students have worked on projects in security and crypto, VPNs, homomorphic encryption, Vehicular Networking, Distributed online control, Underwater communications, music visualisation and … [Read more](https://projects.scss.tcd.ie/project/your-project-idea/ "Your project idea")

Current communication between devices and cloud infrastructure is based largely on IPv4 or IPv6. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) proposes to retrieve information from the ‘network’ based on named content instead of focussing on communication with a endpoints identified by addresses. ICN approaches such as Named-Data Networking (NDN) require consumers to express interests for individual chunks of … [Read more](https://projects.scss.tcd.ie/project/security-of-virtual-infrastructures/ "[Taken] Persistent Interests for Named-Data Networking")

OpenFlow has been proposed as a protocol for managing devices in a control plane to direct the operation of switches in a data plane in order to adjust the flows of traffic within a network. This development of this protocol has focussed on IPv4/6 and other traditional associated protocols. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) – in contrast … [Read more](https://projects.scss.tcd.ie/project/information-centric-networking-in-virtual-infrastructures/ "[Taken] OpenFlow Implementation for Information-Centric Networking")