Abstract
The rapid advances of communication technologies have fueled significant IoT growth, with increasingly interconnected smart devices generating massive data. While various naming services and routing schemes have been proposed, existing solutions remain use-case specific, with Information-Centric Networking (ICN)/Named Data Networking (NDN) facing scalability challenges in edge networks and hybrid designs sacrificing naming flexibility, lacking a holistic architecture for future IoT networks. To address these challenges, we propose the Address Name Transfer Network (ANT-Net), a novel architecture that uniquely combines seamless integration of heterogeneous naming services with enhanced data retrieval efficiency. ANT-Net employs name-based routing at the edge network and IP-based routing within the core network, maintaining full TCP/IP compatibility for both naming and routing services. Furthermore, the distinct separation between edge and core networks in ANT-Net allows for the implementation of different routing strategies, which can significantly improve data sharing and overall communication efficiency.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e70142 |
| Journal | Internet Technology Letters |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2025 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Funding
This research was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China through project 2023YFB3105700. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments, which helped us improve the content, organization, and presentation of this paper.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China | 2023YFB3105700 |
Keywords
- ICN
- IoT
- NDN
- TCP/IP
- compatibility
- hybrid routing
- network
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Information Systems
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Artificial Intelligence