An OpenFlow Architecture for Managing Content-Centric-Network (OFAM-CCN) based on popularity caching strategy

Software-Defined-Networking (SDN) and Content-Centric-Networking (CCN) are gathering an important consideration from academic world and manufacturing. They are perceived as a big opportunity for future Internet. In order to innovate and optimize network resources, the integration of CCN functionalities with OpenFlow architecture presents an attractive deal. However, there are deployment issues requiring a gradual approach to achieve these goals. The current specifications implementing CCN over OpenFlow have not been inspected sufficiently, although the conceptual design was investigated. This paper introduces OFAM-CCN, a new OpenFlow Architecture for Managing CCN to improve this process through new modifications based on Popularity Caching Strategy taking into account caching as a fundamental principle of CCN.