arxivcs.NI2026-07-22
SRAN: Scaling Named Data Networking via Map-and-Encap
Tianyuan Yu, Sirapop Theeranantachai, Lixia Zhang
Network routing scalability is hard to achieve when forwarding state is driven by external entities such as end users or multicast groups. Named Data Networking (NDN) faces this challenge acutely: it fetches data by name, which ties forwarding state to an unbounded number of appl…