Section: New Results

Demonstrating a unified ICN development and evaluation framework

Contributors: Walid Dabbous, Alina Quereilhac, Damien Saucez and Thierry Turletti.

Information-Centric Networking solutions target world-wide deployment in the Internet. It is hence necessary to have access to a development and evaluation environment which enables both controllable and realistic experimentation to thoroughly understand how ICN solutions would behave in real life deployment. Such solution can be obtained with NEPI that we demonstrated at the ACM Information Centric Networking 2014 conference. In this demonstration, we presented a development and evaluation framework that combines emulation and live prototyping environments to provide ICN designers and implementers the means to build beyond-prototype ICN solutions. This framework is built upon NEPI. We demonstrated the benefits of such integrated approach by showing how complete experimental studies can be carried out with minimum man-ual intervention and experiment set-up overhead, in both emulation and live environments. More precisely, we demonstrated how to deploy the same experiment in different environment and how NEPI can help to minimise the implementation and operational overhead. This demonstration is summarised in [31] .