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4th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2017), Sep. 26-28, 2017

Half-Day Tutorial: Community Information-Centric Networking (FD.io/cicn)

Overview

Trainers

  • Luca Muscariello

    Cisco

    • Luca Muscariello received the MSc and PhD degrees from Politecnico di Torino in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He works at Cisco Systems as Principal Engineer and is a research associate at the IRT SystemX. He spent ten years working at France Telecom R&D and Orange Labs Networks doing research and innovation in networking. He was program co-chair of Valuetools 2013, program co-chair of ACM ICN 2014 and general co-chair of ACM ICN 2014. He is a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE and SEE.

       

  • Alberto Compagno

    Cisco

    • Alberto Compagno is a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems working on cutting edge secure and privacy preserving mechanism on fixed and mobile ICN networks. Alberto received the MSc in Computer Science in 2012 from University of Padua, Italy, and he got his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2017 from Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy. His work has been published in high-ranked security conferences and journals. In 2015, He has also been awarded with the best student paper award at the Applied Cryptography and Network Security conference. His main research interests are in network security and user privacy.

       

  • Marcel Enguehard

    Cisco & Telecom ParisTech

    • Marcel Enguehard is a PhD student in a joint program between Cisco and Telecom ParisTech. He works under the supervision of Dr Giovanna Carofiglio and Prof Dario Rossi. His research focuses on applying Information-Centric Networking to the Internet of Things. In particular, he is looking at forwarding strategies in different parts of the IoT vertical. Previous to his PhD, he completed his MSc in 2016 from E'cole Polytechnique and KTH - Royal Institute of Technology. He wrote his master thesis at KTH on optimizing chains of virtualized network functions.

       

  • Mauro Sardara

    Cisco & Telecom ParisTech

    • Mauro Sardara received the MSc degree from Politecnico di Torino in 2016. He is currently doing is PhD in conjunction with Telecom ParisTech and Cisco Systems. The main topic of his PhD is large-scale video delivery over Information-Centric Networks (ICN). He is working on several research topics related to ICN, such as architectural design, transport, routing and forwarding protocols.

       

Motivation

CICN is part of the open source project FD.io in the Linux Foundation. Participation in FD.io is based on active involvement of individuals to software development and testing.

The project scope includes CCN network architecture implementation: packet processing as well as network socket API. Packet processing will be made available through two main forwarders one based on the Vector Packet Processing (VPP) framework and one based on sockets to deploy CCN in non VPP environments. The project will focus on the CCNx 1.0 specification as a reference implementation, but able to evolve by keeping track of the work done in IRTF ICN research group. While the main focus is on VPP plugin, the socket based forwarder will be used to enable end-to-end chains testing, supporting end devices that do not support VPP. Moreover, for the VPP forwarder, CCNx 1.0 packets will be transported using IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet and WiFi encapsulation.

The objective of the tutorial is to make the audience familiar with the CICN project and make the ICN community being able to use the available software for experimental research, demonstrations, proofs of concepts and more.

The tutorial targets both software developers as well as software users. Software developers will learn the continuous integration facility available in the Linux foundation as well as the project governance to directly contribute to the software development and testing.

The CICN project has been launched in March 2017 and the ICN community attending the ACM ICN conference can take advantage of the tutorial to gain the basic knowledge to get advantage of the CICN project.

The main objective of this tutorial is to let researchers, students, software developers, network experimenters to be quickly able to use the software for their own needs. The attendee at the end of the tutorial should be able to perform the following tasks with CICN:

  • Understand Vector Packet Processing;
  • Write applications that make use of the consumer/producer socket API;
  • Deploy a network testbed made of several components such as software routers in Linux containers, end-points such as data producers and consumers, collect network analytics;

Tutorial outline and slides (half day schedule)

The tutorial duration is half-day and would cover the following items:

  1. CICN project overview (30 min);

  2. Vector Packet Processing for ICN (60 min);

  3. break (30 min);

  4. vICN: configuration, management and control of an virtual ICN network (60min);

  5. Applications: Consumer/ Producer Socket API, MPEG-DASH over ICN (30 min).

All slides are available in a single slide deck.

Requirements for the attendees

The attendee is familiar with GNU Linux OS, basic knowledge of Information-Centric Networking in particular CCN/NDN. Optionally, the attendee that is familiar with Linux containers, software-defined networking might want to actively reproduce virtual network testbed deployed during the tutorial.

ACM ICN 2017, Berlin