[Mini-NDN] Controller implementation in mini-ndn : Request for advice

[Rajendran Jeeva]

Hi All,

Thanks for the response.

I just started with my research on this area and I may not be entirely
correct in what I am saying. Sorry if I go wrong somewhere. But, this is
what I am trying to do:

I am trying to experiment with a network that has both NDN nodes and
switches/routers and a controller to control FIB entries in those
switches/routers. Just to replicate the behaviour of OpenFlow controller
but in NDN world. Basically to study what an OpenFlow controller should
know in order to control a NDN network.

Eventhough Mininet has a controller, Mini-ccnx has customized it for the
CCN experiments (in bin/miniccnx, sources/conf_parser, bin/miniccnxedit: in
GUI). I was looking for such implementation in mini-ndn when I found it was
not implemented in mini-ndn and dropped a mail to ask for the motive behind
that.

thanks,
Jeeva


On 6 June 2016 at 19:29, Ashlesh Gawande (agawande) <agawande at memphis.edu>
wrote:

> Yes the controller should still be available via Mininet but it is no
> longer in the conf_parser for Mini-NDN.
>
>
>
> Mini-NDN does have a provision to add switches but I do not know the use
> case (I think they were added back to support NFD tests at one point).
>
> https://github.com/named-data/mini-ndn/blob/master/ndn/conf_parser.py
>
> And yes Mini-NDN still just uses hosts.
>
>
> Maybe Jeeva can elaborate why he needs a controller.
>
>
> Ashlesh
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>
> *Sent:* Monday, June 6, 2016 1:18:04 PM
> *To:* Rajendran Jeeva; Ashlesh Gawande (agawande)
> *Cc:* mini-ndn at lists.cs.ucla.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Mini-NDN] Controller implementation in mini-ndn : Request
> for advice
>
>
> Dear folks
>
> In Mininet, a Controller is a centralized component that makes forwarding
> decisions for Ethernet Switches.
> I believe that Controller is still available for use in Mini-NDN, because
> Mini-NDN is now an add-on of Mininet and not a fork.
>
> However, I wonder what's the semantics of a Controller in Mini-NDN?
> Last time I looked, Mini-NDN uses only Hosts. Each Host has an NFD and an
> NLSR instance. They make forwarding decisions in a distributed manner.
> Since there is no Switch involved, what's a use case for Controller?
>
> Yours, Junxiao
>
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