Facilitating ICN deployment with an extended openflow protocol
Piotr Żuraniewski, Niels van Adrichem, Daan Ravesteijn, Wieger IJntema, Christos C. Papadopoulos, Chengyu Fan · 2017
Named-Data Networking (NDN) is proposed as an approach to evolve the Internet infrastructure from a host- to an information-centric (ICN) approach, which is better suited to the current usage of the Internet. However, the deployment of a global NDN-based Internet is still a long way out of reach. The most likely scenario for a global NDN network will be the one based on NDN 'islands' or domains, where interior forwarding and routing of packets is based on NDN principles. The interconnection of NDN domains involves human configuration to set up IP tunnels, implying an unscalable, tedious and error-prone process resulting in static configuration incapable of reacting to ad-hoc requirements or network changes.