CRI-New: Collaborative: Building the Core NDN Infrastructure

该项目的目标是通过构建核心命名数据网络基础设施作为社区资源来支持命名数据网络(NDN)体系结构的评估、实验和进一步发展，以促进以信息为中心的网络(ICN)范例的研究。命名数据网络(NDN)是一种新的互联网体系结构，它取代了目前对‘Where’即互联网协议(IP)的地址和主机的体系结构的关注，而代之以‘What’，即用户和应用程序关心的内容。这一根本性转变对增强互联网安全、实现移动支持、扩展内容分发和促进新应用程序开发带来了深远的影响。NDN吸引了来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员来探索其设计、实现和应用的方方面面。这是对以信息为中心的网络(ICN)愿景的非常显著的实现，在过去几年中，围绕着ICN形成了一个日益增长的研究社区。要全面探索和检查未来的互联网架构设计，如NDN和更广泛的ICN，需要工作原型、评估工具和实验平台，这些都是本项目旨在开发的核心基础设施。更具体地说，该项目将在现有NDN研究的基础上，为研究界开发更健壮、可扩展和记录良好的NDN软件转发器实现，(I)提供核心网络功能的NDN软件转发器，(Ii)支持应用程序开发的基本特征库，(Iii)连接NDN节点的路由协议，(Iv)NDN模拟器和仿真器包，实验室试验台和用于现实评估和实验的全球试验床，以及(V)演示工具包、工具、文档和教程。Broader影响：作为第一个支持NDN和ICN研究的综合基础设施，它将在几个方面产生重大影响。首先，通过使NDN系统可在多个平台上使用，并且所有感兴趣的研究人员和学生都可以访问，这一基础设施将提供新的研究机会，并帮助发展研究社区。第二，通过学术会议、社区会议和开源开发方法等场所，研究界将参与基础设施的开发和使用，为项目的成功做出贡献并从中受益。最后，基础设施的开发和使用为培养研究生和本科生在试验运行系统时的前瞻性思维提供了一个很好的教育机会。

The goal of this project is to support the evaluation, experimentation, and further development of the Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture through building the core NDN infrastructure as a community resource, serving to advance research in the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm.Named Data Networking (NDN) is a new Internet architecture that replaces today's architectural focus on ``where'', i.e., the addresses and hosts of Internet Protocol (IP), with ``what'', i.e., the content that users and applications care about. This fundamental shift brings profound impacts on enhancing Internet security, enabling mobility support, scaling content distribution, and facilitating new application development. NDN has attracted researchers from around the world, both in academia and industry, to explore all aspects of its design, implementation, and applications. It is a very prominent realization of the vision for Information-Centric Networking (ICN), around which a growing research community has formed over the past several years. A full exploration and examination of future Internet architecture designs like NDN, and ICN more broadly, require working prototypes, evaluation tools, and experimentation platforms, which are the core infrastructure that this project aims to develop. More specifically, building upon the existing NDN research, this project will develop for the research community more robust, extensible, and well-documented implementations of the (i) NDN software forwarder providing core network functionality, (ii) libraries of essential features to support application development, (iii) a routing protocol to connect NDN nodes, (iv) NDN simulator and emulator packages, lab testbed, and global testbed for realistic evaluations and experimentation, and (v) demonstration kits, tools, documentations, and tutorials.Broader Impacts: As the first comprehensive infrastructure to support NDN and ICN research, it will make significant impacts in several ways. First, by making NDN systems available on multiple platforms and accessible to all interested researchers and students, this infrastructure will enable new research opportunities and help grow the research community. Second, through venues such as academic conferences, community meetings, and the open-source development approach, the research community will be involved in both the development and the use of the infrastructure, contributing to and benefiting from the success of the project. Finally, the development and the use of the infrastructure provide a great education opportunity to train graduate and undergraduate students in thinking forward while experimenting with a running system.