抄録
Information-centric networking (ICN) is an emerging research area. Moreover, nowadays ICN is also applied to mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In a MANET, each node has limited resources. However, in many protocols, a node sends the interest packet by flooding. This increases traffic in the entire network. Furthermore, it causes duplicate content transmissions. To solve these problems, we propose an information-centric architecture using a mobile agent (MA). In this method, the MA manages location information and a content list of all nodes and constructs a route. The use of an MA can realize information acquisition without any flooding of interest packets. The performance evaluation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method in terms of power consumption, packet delivery rate, and content acquisition delay.
