[ndnSIM] questions regarding in-network adaptation and sliding window / congestion control implementation

[Daniel Posch]

Dear all,

I am working on the idea to use in-network adaptation (INA) in NDN. For 
simulations with large numbers of hosts I want to use ndnSIM. Currently 
I am struggling with two questions regarding the simulation:

1. For the transmission of multimedia data I need to request multiple 
data packets at once; otherwise the transmission throughput is too low. 
I have implemented a kind of "sliding-window / congestion-control 
interest algorithm" in my application that extends the ndn::App class. 
However, I think it might be a better choice to add this functionality 
to an extended class of ndn::Face? What do you think is the correct tier 
for this functionality, the ndn::Face or the ndn::App?

2. What would be the easiest way for an intermediate NDN-node to scan 
the transmission channel and if necessary to modify the flowing 
NDN-packets? For instance, there are three nodes connected behind one 
another: dest-node <------> INA-node <------> source-node. Let's assume 
that the dest-node is requesting packets of two different classes from 
the source-node and the INA-node should simply drop packets of the 
second class. Is it possible to implement the needed functionality for 
the INA-node as ndn::App or would I have to implement this deeper in the 
ndnSIM core's code? If its somehow possible I would prefer to implement 
this as an extension to the ndn::App class.

Any suggestions/comments are appreciated.

Best regards,
Daniel