  The promising vision of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) and of its
realization, Named Data Networking (NDN), has attracted extensive attention in
recent years in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor
Networks (WSNs). However, a comprehensive NDN/ICN-based architectural design
for WSNs, including specially tailored naming schemes and forwarding
mechanisms, has yet to be explored. In this paper, we present single-Channel
Cluster-based Information-Centric WSN (CCIC-WSN), an NDN/ICN-based framework to
fulfill the requirements of cluster-based WSNs, such as communication between
child nodes and cluster heads, association of new child nodes with cluster
heads, discovery of the namespace of newly associated nodes, and child node
mobility. Through an extensive simulation study, we demonstrate that CCIC-WSN
achieves 71-90% lower energy consumption and 74-96% lower data retrieval delays
than recently proposed frameworks for NDN/ICN-based WSNs under various
evaluation settings.
