AccConF: An Access Control Framework for Leveraging In-Network Cached Data in ICNs Satyajayant Misray, Reza Touraniy, Frank Natividady, Travis Micky, Nahid Ebrahimi Majdz and Hong Huang? y Computer Science Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico Email:fmisra, rtourani, fnativid,
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[email protected] Netflix Repository Abstract—The fast-growing Internet traffic is increasingly becoming content-based and driven by mobile users, with users more interested in data rather than its source. This has precipitated the need for an information-centric Internet archi- Netflix server1 Netflix server2 tecture. Research in information-centric networks (ICNs) have resulted in novel architectures, e.g., CCN/NDN, DONA, and Top Level PSIRP/PURSUIT; all agree on named data based addressing CDN and pervasive caching as integral design components. With CDN1 CDN2 CDN3 CDN4 5 network-wide content caching, enforcement of content access Upper Level control policies become non-trivial. Each caching node in the network needs to enforce access control policies with the help ISP2 ISP3 ISP of the content provider. This becomes inefficient and prone to 1 Base Station unbounded latencies especially during provider outages. Lower Level In this paper, we propose an efficient access control frame- Bottom Level work for ICN, which allows legitimate users to access and Fig. 1. Multi-level network architecture for Internet-based content distri- use the cached content directly, and does not require verifica- bution.