Abstract: To resolve the problem of content source mobility and decrease the mobility overhead in content-centric networking(CCN), this paper proposes a distributed mobility management in CCN(D-CCN), which includes two schemes such as partially D-CCN and fully D-CCN. This distributed mobility management can avoid the redundancy of messages exchanged, which incurred from the centralized mobility management. In terms of performance analysis, the D-CCN can decrease the handoff overhead and improve the network performance compared with the existing schemes.

Key words: content-centric networking, partially distributed management, fully distributed management, mobility handoff