  Information-Centric Networking (ICN) specifically Name Data Networking (NDN)
is the name-base (content-base) networking and takes named-contents as "first
class citizen", being considered as the ideal candidate to form the Future
Internet basis. NDN striking features like named-data self-secured contents,
name-base-forwarding, in-network caching and mobility support suits the
Internet of Things (IoT) environment, which aims to enable communication among
smart devices and to combine all Internet-based smart applications under the
one roof. With these aims, IoT put many research challenges regarding its
network architecture as it should support heterogeneous devices and offer
scalability. IoT may depend on the names and addresses of billions of the
devices and should smartly manage the bulk of data produced every second. IoT
application smart campus has gained a lot of attention in both industry and
academia due to many reasons. Therefore, to design NDN for IoT, a sophisticated
naming scheme is needed to explore and it is the main motivation for this work.
In this paper, we study NDN-IoT smart campus (in terms of connected devices and
contents) and find that it lacks in a reasonable naming and addressing
mechanism; and thus we propose NDN based Hybrid Naming Scheme (NDN-HNS) for IoT
based Smart Campus (IoTSC).
