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

[Rajendran Jeeva]

Thanks for the clarification Junxiao!

~Jeeva

On 6 June 2016 at 20:01, Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Hi Jeeva
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> Mini-NDN uses NFD for NDN forwarding.
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> NFD’s FIB is controlled by NFD-RIB; the RIB is controlled by NFD-RIB
> management protocol
> <http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/RibMgmt>.
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> 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 <http://redmine.named-data.net/issues/3142> is approved and
> implemented.
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> The “controller” for this purpose is just an NDN application, and it’s
> unrelated to OpenFlow.
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> Yours, Junxiao
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> *From: *Rajendran Jeeva <rajendrj at tcd.ie>
> *Sent: *Monday, June 6, 2016 11:54
> *To: *Ashlesh Gawande (agawande) <agawande at memphis.edu>
> *Cc: *Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>;
> mini-ndn at lists.cs.ucla.edu
> *Subject: *Re: [Mini-NDN] Controller implementation in mini-ndn : Request
> foradvice
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> Hi All,
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> Thanks for the response.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> thanks,
>
> Jeeva
>
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