  IP networking deals with end-to-end communication where the network layer
routing protocols maintain the reachability from one address to another.
However, challenging environments, such as mobile ad-hoc networks or MANETs,
lead to frequent path failures and changes between the sender and receiver,
incurring higher packet loss. The obligatory route setup and maintenance of a
device-to-device stable path in MANETs incur significant data retrieval delay
and transmission overhead. Such overhead exaggerates the packet loss manifold.
  Named Data Networking (NDN) can avoid such delays and overhead and
significantly improve the overall network performance. It does so with direct
application-controlled named-data retrieval from any node in a network instead
of reaching a specific IP address with protocol message exchange. However,
existing works lack any explicit or systematic analysis to justify such claims.
Our work analyzes the core NDN and IP architectures in a MANET at a baseline
level. The extensive simulations show that NDN, when applied correctly, yields
much lower data retrieval latency than IP and can lower the network
transmission overhead in most cases. As a result, NDN's stateful forwarder can
significantly increase the retrieval rate, offering a better trade-off at the
network layer. Such performance comes from its caching, built-in multicast, and
request aggregation without requiring an IP-like separate routing control
plane.
