Liquid Data Networking

We introduce Liquid Data Networking (LDN), an ICN architecture that is designed to enable the benefits of erasure-code enabled object delivery. A primary contribution of this work is the introduction of SOPIs, a simple and efficient naming mechanism enabling clients to concurrently download encoded data over multiple interfaces for the same object, to optimize caching efficiency, and to enable seamless mobility. LDN offers a clean separation of security into object security and data packet security. An evaluation of the architecture and its use with various types of erasure codes is provided.