<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 29, 2024, at 12:21 AM, Asim ALHIMSYA <asim.alhimsya@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">I am currently working on developing a security mechanism aimed at detecting and preventing interest flooding attacks using blockchain technology.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>(I prefer to call anonymous ledger as <u>blockchain</u> and permission-based ledger as <u>ledger</u>, to distinguish the two)</div><div><br></div>in addition to Mark's comment: I wonder what you see as the necessity of using an immutable ledger in this context? </div><div>A ledger could serve as a logger.</div><div>But it sounds like you were thinking using it for communication among involved parties? how "real time" would the design get?</div><div> <br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"> As part of my research, I am particularly interested in learning how to effectively integrate a ledger blockchain into the ndnSIM framework.<br><br>Your expertise in this area would be invaluable, and I would greatly appreciate any guidance or resources you could provide on this topic.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 4:23 AM Lixia Zhang <<a href="mailto:lixia@cs.ucla.edu">lixia@cs.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br id="m_2837480456116313848lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 28, 2024, at 8:24 AM, Asim ALHIMSYA <<a href="mailto:asim.alhimsya@gmail.com" target="_blank">asim.alhimsya@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Yes, sure. I'm talking about distributed permission-based ledger.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>sounds good. Next question is what you have in mind about "*inject* blockchain technology *into* ndnSIM simulator": Isn't a permission-based ledger a higher level protocol/app?</div><div><br></div><div>ndnSIM largely handles network level functions as one can see from the attached figure, which is copied from the paper "On the Evolution of ndnSIM: an Open-Source Simulator for NDN Experimentation" </div><div><a href="https://named-data.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ccr17-ndnsim.pdf" target="_blank">https://named-data.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ccr17-ndnsim.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div></div></div><div><div></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 5:25 PM Lixia Zhang <<a href="mailto:lixia@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">lixia@cs.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Oct 28, 2024, at 1:47 AM, Asim ALHIMSYA via ndnSIM <<a href="mailto:ndnsim@lists.cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">ndnsim@lists.cs.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'm reaching out to ask about how can we inject blockchain technology into ndnSIM simulator.<br>
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could you spell out whether you are talking permission-based ledger, or anonymous blockchain?</blockquote></div>
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