A cluster-based scalable router for information centric networks

The overall forwarding rate can be increased or decreased by suitably dimensioning the number of cluster resources (horizontal scaling) or the performance of individual cluster resources (vertical scaling). When deployed in a cloud environment, the amount of cluster resources can follow the traffic demand, so implementing an elastic ICN router. To assess the feasibility of our approach, we developed a real CSR, based on a new kernel-based ICN load-balancer. The paper includes an extensive set of measurements devised to assess the capabilities and performance of the proposed solution.