Content Centric Networking and its Application

Growing use of digital devices and penetration of social networking has created lot of personal content which is being shared over internet. Content sharing is becoming popular and it is one of the most used applications of internet, yet internet design has little consideration for content sharing. It was mainly designed to connect different nodes in the network, so to keep up with latest trend and to efficiently use internet for content sharing a new concept is evolving called Content centric networking (CCN). CCN provides lower communication overhead and shorted download time, this paper will explain CCN, its applications, and possible enhancements to CCN. Key words: Named data, Content Centric Networking (CCN), Mobile content sharing.