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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Thank you for your answer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>In case of NDN is deployed on top of TCP/UDP/IP, we can treat NDN as an application and not all a whole architecture (just to clarify my point), and all the process are based on IP process across different layers, which means there is a IP-MAC resolution to for hop to hop transmission. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well, what if NDN is deployed on top of L2 directly, which means NDN replaces totally IP layer. Does the concept remains the same, I saw the specification of NDNLP paper, but I still have many ambiguities in this context.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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:lixia@cs.ucla.edu">Lixia Zhang</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, May 10, 2017 11:49 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:n.boubakr@bit.edu.cn">n.boubakr@bit.edu.cn</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Ndn-interest] NDN-Data Link Layer</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On May 9, 2017, at 7:30 PM, <<a href="mailto:n.boubakr@bit.edu.cn">n.boubakr@bit.edu.cn</a>> <<a href="mailto:n.boubakr@bit.edu.cn">n.boubakr@bit.edu.cn</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>I have some miss-understanding on how NDN deals with Data Link layer protocol.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>In case deploying NDN on top of IP protocol, does the MAC layer still need a resolution of IP-MAC address to ensure hop to hop communication over ethernet, what if the 6LoWPAN protocol is used?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>How NDN deals with Data Link layer in the case of pure NDN deployment?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>how IP deals with data link layer in case of IP deployment?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>IP uses link layer to carry IP packets<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>similarly, NDN can use data link layer to carry NDN packets, either Interest packet or data packets.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm not sure this answers your question, as I did not figure out what is the exact question you have in mind<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Boubakr Nour (Ph.D Candidate)<br>Beijing Institute of Technology (<span lang=ZH-CN style='font-family:DengXian'>北京理工大学</span>)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>_______________________________________________<br>Ndn-interest mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:Ndn-interest@lists.cs.ucla.edu"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Ndn-interest@lists.cs.ucla.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><br></span><a href="http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/ndn-interest"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/ndn-interest</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>