1Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX 77446
2Department of Engineering Technology, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX 77446
*Email: sadiku@iee.org
Online published on 17 July, 2017.
To cope with today's communication needs, named data networking (NDN) has been introduced as a promising candidate for the future Internet. NDN is a new architecture, which is compatible with today's Internet. The elegance of its architecture and its adequateness to today's Internet usage make it a good candidate for the next generation of networks. This paper provides a brief introduction to NDN.
Named data networking, content-centric networking, content-based networking, data-oriented networking, information-centric networking
