HLLR: Highest Lifetime Least Request policy for high performance Pending Interest Table

Pending Interest Table (PIT) in Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture is complex in the forwarding operation in both upload of Interest packets and download of Data packets. PIT is considered useful for so many reasons in the centric-networking. These among other operations include: reducing bandwidth usage, communicating with no prior knowledge of publishers and subscribers, loop and packet loss detection and best security. However, despite...