CI-NEW: Collaborative: Building the Core NDN Infrastructure to Advance Information-Centric Networking Research

该项目的目标是通过将核心 NDN 基础设施构建为社区资源，支持命名数据网络 (NDN) 架构的评估、实验和进一步开发，从而推进以信息为中心的网络 (ICN) 范式的研究。命名数据网络 (NDN) 是一种新的互联网架构，它用“什么”（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产生深远影响。 NDN 吸引了来自世界各地学术界和工业界的研究人员来探索其设计、实现和应用的各个方面。 这是对以信息为中心的网络 (ICN) 愿景的一个非常突出的实现，在过去几年中，围绕该网络形成了一个不断壮大的研究社区。 对未来互联网架构设计（如 NDN 和更广泛的 ICN）的全面探索和检验，需要工作原型、评估工具和实验平台，这是该项目旨在开发的核心基础设施。更具体地说，在现有的 NDN 研究的基础上，该项目将为研究界开发更强大、可扩展和有据可查的实现：(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功能库，(iii) 连接 NDN 节点的路由协议，(iv) NDN 模拟器和仿真器包、实验室测试台和用于实际评估和实验的全局测试台，以及 (v) 演示套件、工具、文档和更广泛的影响：作为第一个支持 NDN 和 ICN 研究的综合基础设施，它将在多个方面产生重大影响。首先，通过使 NDN 系统在多个平台上可用并可供所有感兴趣的研究人员和学生访问，该基础设施将带来新的研究机会并帮助发展研究社区。其次，通过学术会议、社区会议和开源开发方式等场所，研究社区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提供了一个很好的教育机会，可以培养研究生和本科生在试验运行系统时进行前瞻性思考。

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.