Information-centric mobile ad hoc networks and content routing: A survey

As the future Internet architecture, information centric networking(ICN) can also offer superior architectural support for mobile ad hoc networking. Therefore, information-centric mobile ad hoc networks (ICMANET), a new cross-cutting research area, is gradually forming. In the paper, we firstly introduce the current advances in ICN and analyze its development trends, and then interpret the formation of ICMANET and sketch an overview of it. Subsequently, we define a concept model for content routing and categorize the content routing into proactive, reactive and opportunistic types, and then detail the representative schemes. Finally, the existing issues are summarized. The goal of the work is to provide the references and guidelines for readers approaching study on the new area.