[ndnSIM] Seeking help regarding ndnsim; intreset with different sequence number

Ravi Kumar Singh rk8000 at g.rit.edu
Wed May 4 15:37:35 PDT 2016


Additionally, is there any way by which we can find the total number of
request received at the interface for a *particular* content in the Face
class or Forwarder class?

Thanks and Regards,
Ravi Kumar Singh

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> We are following what you have suggested and we are working on CS of NFD.
> Now, we want to store popularity associated with each content. We are
> thinking to add a field in the Entry class, which would store the
> popularity of the data associated with this Entry. And after that, we are
> planning to use that popularity in a sub-class of the Decision-Policy class.
> (
> https://github.com/ndncomm/nfd-caching-policies/blob/2ed1d1630f441f0b20fc004d2f74577363a0a967/daemon/table/cs-decision-policy.hpp
> )
>
> Is there any way by which we can look up a required entry using its name
> (Data-name) from the Content Store. We want to perform this look-up
> operation in a sub-class of the (above-mentioned) Decision-Policy class?
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ravi Kumar Singh
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:33 AM, Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis <
> mastorakis at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ravi,
>>
>> the first thing you will have to do is to decide whether you would like
>> to implement a replacement policy using the ndnSIM-specific implementation
>> of CS or the CS of NFD.
>>
>> If you go for the first one, you should take a look at the already
>> implemented policies and also search for papers that have implemented
>> replacement policies for ndnSIM. Some of them provide pointers to the
>> source code.
>>
>> If you go for the second option, you can take a look at this project:
>> https://github.com/ndncomm/nfd-caching-ndnsim
>> It is a project of the first NDN hackathon, where people implemented a
>> number of CS replacement policies for the version of NFD used by ndnSIM.
>>
>> Hope that this helps.
>>
>> Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis
>> Personal Website: http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/
>> Internet Research Laboratory
>> Computer Science Department
>> UCLA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Lixia Zhang <lixia at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lixia / Team,
>>
>> I would like to create a custom cache replacement policy. I went through
>> the LruPolicy class and I can see that it contains methods
>> like evictEntries, insertToQueue, etc. However, it is not clear, when, how
>> these methods are called.
>>
>> I believe in order to achieve what I want to, I would have to create a
>> similar class. Am I on the right path here? Some starting point
>> documentation of how the flow is would be really helpful.
>>
>>
>> I must admit that I dont know the code details. So we need Alex or Spyros
>> to help out here.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Lixia/Spyridon! I will implement this and will let you the
>>> results! Thank you so much again!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Lixia Zhang <lixia at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 18, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis <
>>>> mastorakis at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ravi,
>>>>
>>>> that looks right to me.
>>>>
>>>> There is also something else that you need to do:
>>>>
>>>> your consumer application should express Interests with the
>>>> “mustBeFresh” selector set in order to retrieve only “fresh” data:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/named-data-ndnSIM/ndn-cxx/blob/ndn-cxx-0.3.4-ndnSIM/src/interest.hpp#L417-L423
>>>>
>>>> To this end you should do something like that:
>>>>
>>>> Interest i(name);
>>>> i.setMustBeFresh(true);
>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> m_face->onReceiveInterest(*interest);
>>>>
>>>> Hope that this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis
>>>> Personal Website: http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/
>>>> Internet Research Laboratory
>>>> Computer Science Department
>>>> UCLA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> copied the list here.
>>>> Ravi, hopefully your issue was resolved?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 17, 2016, at 11:54 PM, Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Lixia,
>>>>
>>>> No, I am not aware where we need to set this "must be fresh". I just
>>>> followed the below link:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/cawka/ndnSIM-examples/blob/master/examples/ndn-simple-with-content-freshness.cc
>>>>
>>>> and changed like below:
>>>>
>>>> ccnxHelper.SetContentStore ("ns3::ndn::cs::Freshness::Lru","MaxSize", "
>>>> 2");
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>> producerHelper.SetAttribute ("Freshness", TimeValue (Seconds (2.0)));
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know where exactly we have to set "must be fresh" or
>>>> anything we need to do?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>> Ravi Kumar Singh
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Lixia Zhang <lixia at cs.ucla.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 17, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alex/Lixia/Team,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you so much for the help! Now, I am trying to use the
>>>>> ns3::ndn::cs::Freshness::Lru   feature to use the freshness. But it
>>>>> seems its not giving desired results. Even after the freshness has expired
>>>>> the next interest is being served from the Cache server and not from the
>>>>> Origin Server. And as per the policy(ns3::ndn::cs::Freshness::Lru),it cache
>>>>> Data packets only for the time indicated by FreshnessPeriod.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> did you set "must be fresh" in your interests packets?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>> Ravi Singh
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Alex Afanasyev <aa at cs.ucla.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Forgot to include team.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu>
>>>>>> Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:11 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ndnSIM] Seeking help regarding ndnsim; intreset with
>>>>>> different sequence number
>>>>>> To: Lixia Zhang <lixia at cs.ucla.edu>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Lixia! I will try setting  up a second consumer to request
>>>>>> the same data.
>>>>>> But, in our experiment, we need to see what happens when the same
>>>>>> consumer requests the same interest multiple times. I tried writing my own
>>>>>> implementation of a consumer, but still only the first interest is working
>>>>>> well and rest all interest are *not even* forwarding from the
>>>>>> consumer(same) itself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Following is a log of its operation ( with my own implemention of one
>>>>>> consumer sending three same interest):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1: 1s 0 CustomApp:SendInterest(): [DEBUG] Sending Interest packet for
>>>>>> /root/%FE%00?ndn.InterestLifetime=1000&ndn.Nonce=4231791817
>>>>>> 2: 1s 0 CustomApp:SendInterest(): [DEBUG] Sending Interest packet for
>>>>>> /root/%FE%00?ndn.InterestLifetime=1000&ndn.Nonce=2837832477
>>>>>> 3: 1s 0 CustomApp:SendInterest(): [DEBUG] Sending Interest packet for
>>>>>> /root/%FE%00?ndn.InterestLifetime=1000&ndn.Nonce=2794407255
>>>>>> 4: 1.01002s 1 ndn.cs.Lru:Lookup(0x1493c10, /root/%FE%00)
>>>>>> 5: 1.02004s 2 ndn.Producer:OnInterest(0x14fce90, 0x1528ae8)
>>>>>> 6: 1.02004s 2 ndn.Producer:OnInterest(): [INFO ] node(2) responding
>>>>>> with Data: /root/%FE%00
>>>>>> 7: 1.03089s 1 ndn.cs.Lru:Add(0x1493c10, /root/%FE%00)
>>>>>> 8: 1.04174s 0 CustomApp:OnData(): [DEBUG] Receiving Data packet for
>>>>>> /root/%FE%00
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As, you can see from the log, only first interest is working file and
>>>>>> rest 2 interest are *not even* forwarding from the consumer itself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ravi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What you see is correct and intentional behavior of an NDN router.
>>>>>> You're trying to send 3 interests for the same data at the exactly the same
>>>>>> time.  As a result, these 3 interests will be aggregated into one and only
>>>>>> one will be sent further. Also, given that the same app (though the same
>>>>>> face) is sending those interests, only one data is returned back.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depending on what specific effect you want to observe, you may want
>>>>>> to spread out sending interests in time and/or request from different
>>>>>> simulated nodes (different app instances).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please suggest!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Ravi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Lixia Zhang <lixia at cs.ucla.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 9:20 PM, Ravi Kumar Singh <rk8000 at g.rit.edu>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Team,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am a Graduate student of Rochester Institue of Technology, New
>>>>>>> York. Currently, I am working on a research paper based on NDN along with
>>>>>>> my Prof.
>>>>>>> Currently, we want to simulate the NDN with your software NDNSIM. We
>>>>>>> want to simulate the scenario where the consumer is sending the same
>>>>>>> interest (same sequence number) multiple times to the producer so that the
>>>>>>> cache Server would serve the interest as it would have the content in its
>>>>>>> cache instead of serving the request from the producer.
>>>>>>> We tried googling but couldn't found any relevant link for this
>>>>>>> scenario.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Requesting you to please help us on how we can simulate the scenario
>>>>>>> where the consumer is sending the same interest(same sequence number)
>>>>>>> instead of the incremental sequence number (default behaviour).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> it seems to me easier to set up a second consumer to request the
>>>>>>> same data, rather than forcing the same consumer to send repeated interest.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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