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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Jeeva</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mini-NDN uses NFD for NDN forwarding.</p><p class=MsoNormal>NFD’s FIB is controlled by NFD-RIB; the RIB is controlled by <a href="http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/RibMgmt">NFD-RIB management protocol</a>.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you are looking at centralized control of RIB entries, the control messages should be delivered over NDN protocol. This would be possible once #<a href="http://redmine.named-data.net/issues/3142">3142</a> is approved and implemented.</p><p class=MsoNormal>The “controller” for this purpose is just an NDN application, and it’s unrelated to OpenFlow.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yours, Junxiao</p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:rajendrj@tcd.ie">Rajendran Jeeva</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, June 6, 2016 11:54<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:agawande@memphis.edu">Ashlesh Gawande (agawande)</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:shijunxiao@email.arizona.edu">Junxiao Shi</a>; <a href="mailto:mini-ndn@lists.cs.ucla.edu">mini-ndn@lists.cs.ucla.edu</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Mini-NDN] Controller implementation in mini-ndn : Request foradvice</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Hi All,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Thanks for the response.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Jeeva<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>