Use of Information Centric Network (ICN) as a viable Alternative to Traditional IP Network in Forwarding Mechanism: A Practical Approach to Preventing DoS using Bloom Filter Packet Forwarding

Abstract

This paper focuses on identifying the benefits of using ICN network as an alternative to forwarding mechanism in place of the traditional IP network. The ICN network uses an In-packet Bloom filter as the forwarding identifier, where a complete analysis of the false positive probability is carried out. The formulas used in the false positive analysis include the classical formula, Bose formula and the experimental formula. However, this work does not involve the actual implementation of the Bloom filters on the router, but rather an explanation of the possibility is given. In the experimental program, we used MATLAB to generate a set of links and encode them as Bloom filters and used a function known as setdiff, which extracts the number of links to be tested from the actual links array.

Keywords: Information Centric Network (ICN), IP Network, DoS, DDoS, TCP/IP Protocol Suite.