Leveraging Social Notions To Improve Id-To-Locator Mapping In Iot Identity Oriented Networks

In this paper, a novel approach is conceived to address one of the major drawbacks of the current Internet, i.e., the need for splitting the unique host identifier (ID) from the locator used at the network layer for routing purposes that may change over time. The proposal relies on the introduction of social notions to support networking functions and improve the ID -to locator splitting procedures in the context of an Identity Oriented Networking (ION) framework for Internet of Things (IoT). At the so-called "ID layer", an architecture based on the Social Internet of Things paradigm is proposed, which relies on distributed repositories that store for each device the ID of their "friends" to significantly facilitate the ID -to -locator lookup. Simulation results are provided to assess the performance of the proposal when considering the peculiarities of social interactions among objects.