M2HAV: A standardized ICN naming scheme for wireless devices in internet of things

The concept Internet of Things in recent years has enabled the connectivity of almost every electronic device using wireless medium, to the Internet. This has created a massive surge in number of heterogeneous wireless devices, with many new challenges regarding content and service naming. The traditional IP-based architectures are now moving towards information/content centric networks. In this paper, we propose a multilayer multi-component hierarchical attribute-value naming scheme for wireless devices. It combines self-certifying names to achieve a standardized naming scheme, which is scalable, efficient, routable, and is secure by design. We use variable-length encoding method to represent hierarchical location names with prefix-labeling. It is highly expressive and customizable using a tree representation, where each level represents a semantic functionality. The qualitative and quantitative analysis show that the proposed scheme is inherently better than many of the available information-centric networking architectures, and is able to reduce the memory and time consumption for name lookup and routing purposes.