Intelligent Eco Networking(IEN)

What is IEN? Intelligent Eco Networking (IEN) aims to gradually evolve to be an advanced infrastructure for future Internet of intelligence and value.

IEN treats valuable content data as the first-class entity, motivated by data exchange, manipulated by artificial intelligence, based on the approaches of software defined, virtualized and programmable devices, additionally by comprehensively measuring the cost and gain of storage, computing and network resources, it also integrates decentralized consensus trust preservation and tokenized fine-grained allocation mechanism of blockchain to establish a prosperous mutual-contributed and mutual beneficial value-oriented networking industry ecosystem.

It was a novel new idea and research project on-going proposed by Prof. Kai Lei (Peking University , Shenzhen) and his ICNLab Group.

  1. US patent(authorized), 2019: “NDN and IP fusion network content control method and apparatus, and storage medium(一种NDN和IP融合网络的内容管控方法、装置及存储介质)”;
  2. US patent(authorized), 2019: “Method and apparatus for forwarding an interest packet based on a probability tree in an information network (信息中心网络下基于概率树的兴趣包转发的方法);
  3. US patent(authorized), 2019: “Method and Apparatus for Sending Target Data to and Acquiring Target Data from Network”;
  4. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利:基于网络传输的数据包的加密解密方法与终端,ZL201310688322.5,授权日: 2018年1月;
  5. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利:信息中心网络下兴趣包转发的方法和转发终端,ZL201410476456.5,授权:2017年7月。
  6. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利:信息中心网络下的流媒体系统及其使用方法,ZL201410345816.8,授权:2017年6月。
  7. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利:一种基于NDN网络架构的P2P文件传输方法,ZL201310339690.9,授权日:2016年5月。
  8. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利:支持消费者移动的数据预取方法、接入基站和终端,ZL201410204197.0,授权日:2017年6月。
  9. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利:TCP/IP协议与NDN协议之间的数据转换传输方法,ZL201310137990.9,授权日:2017年2月。
  10. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利: “一种自组网络的分布式入侵检测方法和系统”,201810179320.6,申请日期,2018年3月8日【NDN Blockchain】
  11. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利: “一种CCN中基于区块链的密钥管理方法、装置及存储介质”,201810878557.3,申请日期,2018年8月3日【NDN Blockchain】
  12. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利: “基于NDN的区块链同步方法和装置”,201710400368.0,申请日期,2017年5月31日【NDN Blockchain】
  13. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利: “一种联盟区块链共识方法”,201810122889.9,申请日期,2018年2月【Blockchain】
  14. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利: “一种区块链系统的测试系统和方法”,201711320172.7,申请日期,2017年12月12日【Blockchain】
  15. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利: “一种基于区块链的数字资产交易方法和系统”,201810247448.1,申请日期,2018年3月23日【Blockchain】
  16. Chinese patent (authorized) 授权专利:  “一种活动社交网络中节点可信度的计算方法”,201710132298.5,申请日期,2017年3月8日【Blockchain】

Why IEN

The traditional Internet is facing a huge change. At the physical level, the function-bound hardware causes that the network service is slow to deploy, has a single function, and the configuration program is cumbersome. It can’t meet the heterogeneous network communication environment where multiple protocols and multiple transmission signals are parallel. The hardware that can be flexibly configured and compatible with various communication protocols and transmission signals has drawn more and more attention.

At the network level, in the era of data content explosion, the main behavior of users in the network has been changed from mutual communication to acquisition of content. This requires the network to have a certain awareness of the content, which can help users find the content they want. It is urgent to make the original transfer-based and location-based transport architecture shift to a new one which is content-based and service-based.

At the application level, the applications related to artificial intelligence technology and blockchain technology come out one after the other. While gradually infiltrating people’s online life, it also provides new ideas for the development of the underlying technology of the Internet. How to integrate these new technologies into the network to form a smarter, safer, more autonomous and more comprehensive network architecture is the continuous concern of future network.

Ultimately, in the aspect of application scenario, in the future, not only the devices that people use every day, but also the Internet of Things devices hidden in various details in life, will join the Internet. The communication between people and things, things and things is bound to be an application scenario that the Internet must solve in the future. In addition, how to integrate, coordinate and utilize these network devices is a problem that the Internet will face in the future.

Thus, we need something  new.  Firstly, it can serve as a future network infrastructure based on value content data, data transaction driving, artificial intelligence control and awareness, software definition, virtualization, programmable device technology route. Then, on this basis, it can establish a prosperous mutual-contributed and mutual beneficial value-oriented networking industry ecosystem by comprehensively measuring the cost and gain of storage, computing and network resource, and integrating decentralized consensus trust preservation and tokenized fine-grained allocation mechanism of blockchain. That’s why we need IEN.

IEN related concepts:

Named Data Networking(NDN), Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence(AI);
Knowledge Defined Networking(KDN), Knowledge Driven Networking(KDN) ,
Blockchain DID (JChain) , Information Centric Networking

IEN related Projects resouces:

Named Data Networking Chinese Community  IASO Knowledge Graph

2018 1st IEEE International Conference on Hot Information-Centric Networking (HotICN)

IEN-"Intelligent Eco Networking"