TECHNIQUE FOR COMMUNICATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH NAME-BASED ROUTING

摘要

The invention relates to a communication method to be implemented by a routing device (20-23) in a communication network (1) implementing name-based routing. Said device is suitable for aggregating a plurality of requests relating to one data segment of a stream into another request, and for storing data segments belonging to different streams in a queue before the device routes said data segments toward client entities having requested same. The method includes: a step of determining a credit associated with a stream, said credit varying according to a number of requests transmitted by client entities and relating to data segments belonging to the stream; and, upon receiving a data segment in response to said other request, when the available memory space of the queue does not make it possible to store the received data segment: a step of selecting a stream, wherein a stream having at least one data segment stored in the queue, and for which the associated credit is the smallest, is selected; and a step of removing a data segment belonging to the selected stream from the queue, said method also including a step of routing the data segment towards client entities having requested same after the extraction thereof from the queue.