An on-demand off-path cache exploration based multipath forwarding strategy

Information-Centric Networking (ICN), such as Named Data Networking (NDN), intrinsically supports multipath forwarding and in-network caching. In order to take full advantage of both multipath forwarding and in-network caching, it requires sophisticated coordination among consumers, publishers and in-network caches for consumers to learn the fine-grained packet-level cache reachability information. The complexity introduced by the coordination...