Cefore: Software Platform Enabling Content-Centric Networking and Beyond

Hitoshi ASAEDA; Atsushi OOKA; Kazuhisa MATSUZONO; Ruidong LI

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Cefore: Software Platform Enabling Content-Centric Networking and Beyond

Hitoshi ASAEDA, Atsushi OOKA, Kazuhisa MATSUZONO, Ruidong LI

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Information-Centric or Content-Centric Networking (ICN/CCN) is a promising novel network architecture that naturally integrates in-network caching, multicast, and multipath capabilities, without relying on centralized application-specific servers. Software platforms are vital for researching ICN/CCN; however, existing platforms lack a focus on extensibility and lightweight implementation. In this paper, we introduce a newly developed software platform enabling CCN, named Cefore. In brief, Cefore is lightweight, with the ability to run even on top of a resource-constrained device, but is also easily extensible with arbitrary plugin libraries or external software implementations. For large-scale experiments, a network emulator (Cefore-Emu) and network simulator (Cefore-Sim) have also been developed for this platform. Both Cefore-Emu and Cefore-Sim support hybrid experimental environments that incorporate physical networks into the emulated/simulated networks. In this paper, we describe the design, specification, and usage of Cefore as well as Cefore-Emu and Cefore-Sim. We show performance evaluations of in-network caching and streaming on Cefore-Emu and content fetching on Cefore-Sim, verifying the salient features of the Cefore software platform.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E102-B No.9 pp.1792-1803

Publication Date: 2019/09/01

Publicized: 2019/03/22

Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2018EII0001

Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Enhancing Information Centric Networking Technologies Towards Real-world Infrastructure)

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Hitoshi ASAEDA
  the Network System Research Institute at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Atsushi OOKA
  the Network System Research Institute at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Kazuhisa MATSUZONO
  the Network System Research Institute at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Ruidong LI
  the Network System Research Institute at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

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ICN, CCN, in-network cache, computing in network, Cefore, open source

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Hitoshi ASAEDA, Atsushi OOKA, Kazuhisa MATSUZONO, Ruidong LI, "Cefore: Software Platform Enabling Content-Centric Networking and Beyond" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E102-B, no. 9, pp. 1792-1803, September 2019, doi: 10.1587/transcom.2018EII0001.
Abstract: Information-Centric or Content-Centric Networking (ICN/CCN) is a promising novel network architecture that naturally integrates in-network caching, multicast, and multipath capabilities, without relying on centralized application-specific servers. Software platforms are vital for researching ICN/CCN; however, existing platforms lack a focus on extensibility and lightweight implementation. In this paper, we introduce a newly developed software platform enabling CCN, named Cefore. In brief, Cefore is lightweight, with the ability to run even on top of a resource-constrained device, but is also easily extensible with arbitrary plugin libraries or external software implementations. For large-scale experiments, a network emulator (Cefore-Emu) and network simulator (Cefore-Sim) have also been developed for this platform. Both Cefore-Emu and Cefore-Sim support hybrid experimental environments that incorporate physical networks into the emulated/simulated networks. In this paper, we describe the design, specification, and usage of Cefore as well as Cefore-Emu and Cefore-Sim. We show performance evaluations of in-network caching and streaming on Cefore-Emu and content fetching on Cefore-Sim, verifying the salient features of the Cefore software platform.
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