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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2015
Nec Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, DE;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of processing information centric networking (ICN) interest messages in a delay tolerant networking (DTN) scenario, wherein ICN data mules receive interests for content from end-users and disseminate content to end-users based on the interests and/or during encounters with other ICN data mules, includes performing a popularity estimation of content; appending, by a first end-user when forwarding an interest for given content to a data mule, a nonce to the interest; and employing, by a first data mule, the appended nonce according to predefined rules to maintain and/or record a counter for interests for the given content. The counter functions as a popularity indicator for the given content.