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

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi Jeeva

Mini-NDN uses NFD for NDN forwarding.
NFD’s FIB is controlled by NFD-RIB; the RIB is controlled by NFD-RIB management protocol.

If you are looking at centralized control of RIB entries, the control messages should be delivered over NDN protocol. This would be possible once #3142 is approved and implemented.
The “controller” for this purpose is just an NDN application, and it’s unrelated to OpenFlow.

Yours, Junxiao

From: Rajendran Jeeva
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 11:54
To: Ashlesh Gawande (agawande)
Cc: Junxiao Shi; mini-ndn at lists.cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: [Mini-NDN] Controller implementation in mini-ndn : Request foradvice

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
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