[Ndn-interest] NDN-friendly Mobility solutions

[Wentao Shang]

On Sat Feb 14 2015 at 9:26:50 AM Muhammad Hosain Abdollahi Sabet <
M.AbdollahiSabet at mail.sbu.ac.ir> wrote:

>  Thank you so much for answering.
> Actually it struck my mind that "it" is unclear, which I'm sorry for the
> ambiguity. The second one was the closest one. I meant: "Is the solution
> for producer-side mobility clear enough that there hasn't been real attempt
> about it?
> I'll be absolutely glad to help. ​As far as I understand we have another
> paradigm shifting again in some mobility application scenarios like mobile
> caller-callee. NDN shifts networking from host-centric(point to point) to a
> content-centric architecture. And now we want to make point to point
> connection overlay of NDN. Right?
>
Not sure why you want to make point-to-point connection over NDN. Is it a
requirement from specific application in your mind? NDN shifts away from
the P2P connection model and therefore provides new opportunity for better
mobility support. Perhaps it is more efficient to design your application
in the NDN model (in which case some mobility issue may disappear
automatically) than to fit the old model into the new architecture.


> So I think using some IP-like producer mobility solutions is not
> avoidable. On the other hand some of NDN features like being broadcast
> finendly which is referred to in "A New Perspective in Mobility Support''
> as a suggestion, isn't practical in large scale because of producing heavy
> overhead of controlling data(specially in hard-state mode).
>
Broadcast is impractical for large scale IP network. But NDN has a smarter
forwarding plain which opens possibility for intelligent
broadcast/multicast using self-learning path selection and traffic
reduction.

Different mobility solutions are designed for different application
scenarios. In some extreme cases where the network is so dynamic that it is
impossible to maintain a stable topology, broadcast/multicast may be the
only choice.


> Furthermore, hierarchical naming brings some location dependency,
>
It is not that hierarchical naming brings location dependency. Any
identifier that is used in routing and forwarding will cause location
dependency. That's why people invented the concept of Locator/ID
separation, which is mentioned in the mobility TR. The "forwarding hint" is
one way to implement that in NDN.

Wentao


> and maybe we need some conventions in this field, in which network can
> approximate location of endpoint while pinpointing location of endpoint can
> be postponed to last steps.
> I just listed some of the challenges I faced till now. I'll be grateful to
> know your opinion about them.
>
> Thanks again,
> Sabet
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lixia Zhang [mailto:lixia at cs.ucla.edu <lixia at cs.ucla.edu>]
> Sent: Fri 2/13/2015 8:26 PM
> To: Muhammad Hosain Abdollahi Sabet
> Cc: ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [Ndn-interest] NDN-friendly Mobility solutions
>
>
> > On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Muhammad Hosain Abdollahi Sabet <
> M.AbdollahiSabet at mail.sbu.ac.ir> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone.
> > I've been studying NDN for a couple of months now. For supporting
> mobility in environments without any clear infrastructure and topology like
> MANET (VANET in particular), it's been developing like a charm. But as far
> as I've learned, it's producer-side mobility support in large scales still
> has some serious challenges, particularly in scenarios like mobile
> caller-callee. And as "A New Perspective on Mobility Support" has reported,
> none of the proposed solutions(Proxy based, Rendezvous point based, ...)
> seems to have a NDN-likely technique. I'm eager to work on it as my B.S
> thesis. But the problem is, when I look at the ICN workshops, conferences,
> articles, posters, demos and etc, I cannot find real attempts on
> this(unless Kite I may say). Not that I've seen for example about Routing
> or Security. And now I'm wondering: Is it really that clear?! Maybe you can
> guide me to a vision I don't have.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sabet
>
> Sabet,
>
> thanks for your msg. I wonder what you meant by "Is it really that
> clear?!".
> If you are asking whether it is clear that NDN can offer superior mobility
> support than TCP/IP, then you know the answer is YES, right?
> If you are asking whether mobile producer solutions have been fully
> developed: it is still being developed, hence the need for your effort on
> this problem.  We *are* developing solutions, first for specific
> application scenarios, which help us understand how to provide general
> solutions.
> If you are asking for examples of routing solutions: I'm sure you've seen
> NLSR work as an example; we are also actively working on hyperbolic routing
> as potential long term directly.
> For security, you may look into recent NDN retreat which focused on
> security solution development.
>
> Lixia
>
>
>
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