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Information-Centric Networking (ICN) emerges as a promising approach for content dissemination and retrieval with a number of advantages including efficient content delivery, better bandwidth utilization and improved mobility support. In past few years, several ICN architectures have been proposed offering different set of features and characteristics, which makes it difficult to choose a particular architecture, given some network conditions and characteristics at hand. These characteristics include IP compatibility, and choice of naming structures etc. Besides, there is a little focus on a number of challenging areas including congestion control, availability, sporadic behavior, multi-source multi-destination and security etc. Moreover, it is not clear how ICN approaches behave with different emerging network environments such as user-centric networking, object-centric networking, Software-Defined networking and …