Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG)

This is the Wiki for the IRTF ICN Research Group (ICNRG).

ICNRG Administrative Information

• ​Official ICNRG web page
• ​Mailing List
• ​Charter

Contact ICNRG chairs

Börje Ohlman, Dirk Kutscher, Dave Oran

ICNRG Documents and Presentation Material

• ICNRG document ​Datatracker for latest status and progress.
• ​Meeting material for all meetings so far
• We are tracking document reviews using a Google Sheet. Please sign up to do reviews of documents you find interesting. Getting good reviews is how we can progress work efficiently for the RG. You can find it here: ​https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GZ51qcTCsOklmAqerbFSjLQwqkvlyA28ylGBFW_hLnI/edit#gid=0

RFCs

Informational RFCs

• RFC 7476 Information-Centric Networking: Baseline Scenarios (was draft-irtf-icnrg-scenarios)
  • A document that defines reference baseline scenarios to enable performance comparisons between different approaches.
• RFC 7927 Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Research Challenges (was draft-icnrg-challenges)
  • This document describes current research challenges in ICN, including naming, security, routing, system scalability, mobility management, wireless networking, transport services, in-network caching, and network management.
• RFC 7933 Adaptive Video Streaming over ICN (was draft-irtf-icrng-videostreaming)
  • A document that describes key issues of video streaming in ICN and considers how the current video streaming should be modified in an ICN architecture.
• RFC 7945 "Information-Centric Networking: Evaluation and Security Considerations" (was draft-irtf-icnrg-evaluation-methodology)
  • This document presents a number of considerations regarding evaluating Information-Centric Networking (ICN) and sheds some light on the impact of ICN on network security. It also surveys the evaluation tools currently available to researchers in the ICN area and provides suggestions regarding methodology and metrics.

Experimental RFCs

• RFC 8569 "Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) Semantics "
  • This document describes the core concepts of the Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) architecture and presents a network protocol based on two messages: Interests and Content Objects.
• RFC 8609 " Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) Messages in TLV Format "
  • This document specifies the encoding of CCNx messages in a TLV packet format, including the TLV types used by each message element and the encoding of each value.

In RFC Editor Queue

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ICNRG current work items

• ​Information-centric Routing for Opportunistic Wireless Networks
• CCN/NDN Convergence Effort
  • The work on harmonizing the CCN & NND protocols is initially documenting the differences in the document Design Choices and Differences for NDN and CCNx 1.0 Implementations of Information-Centric Networking, draft-icnrg-harmonization-00 (​.html, ​.txt)
• ​Using ICN in disaster scenarios
• ​File-Like ICN Collection (FLIC)
• ​Deployment Considerations for Information-Centric Networking
• ​Native Deployment of ICN in LTE, 4G Mobile Networks
• ​Design Considerations for Applying ICN to IoT
• ​Information-Centric Networking (ICN): CCN and NDN Terminology
• ​Requirements for Name Resolution Service in ICN
• ​Architectural Considerations of ICN using Name Resolution Service
• ​CCNinfo: Discovering Content and Network Information in Content-Centric Networks

ICNRG discussion items / Potential future work items

• ICN Routing here we list research issues related to ICN routing and related research papers.

Other ICNRG documents

For complete list, see ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/icnrg/documents/

IoT

• ​Requirements and Challenges for IoT over ICN, merger of
  • Applicability and tradeoffs of ICN for efficient IoT (draft-lindgren-icnrg-efficientiot)
  • ICN-IoT Requirements and Challenges (​https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zhang-iot-icn-challenges)
• ​Proposed Design Choices for IoT over Information Centric Networking

Other

• ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ahlgren-icnrg-netinf-live-video/
• ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hong-icnrg-bloomfilterbased-name-resolution/
• ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-icnrg-hn/

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Running Code

• ​NDN-OPP: NDN Android for Opportunistic Wireless Networks
• ​DABBER routing protocol implementation - Works on top of NDN-OPP
• ​Oi!: Short Messaging Application for Opportunistic Wireless Networks- Works on top of NDN-OPP
• ​Now@: Data Sharing Application for Opportunistic Wireless Networks- Works on top of NDN-OPP
• ​CCN-Lite
• ​Named Data Networking
• ​CICN
• ​RIOT Project
• ​Cefore
• CCNx test rig

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ICNRG Design Teams and Side meeting materials

CCNx-TWG Side meetings

Upcoming ICNRG events

ICNRG online Interim meeting on December 1st, 2020

• Date:2020-12-01
• Time: 15:00 -- 18:00 UTC
• WebEx?: to be announced
• Notes: ​https://codimd.ietf.org/icnrg-interim-2020-12-031
• Notes taker: TBD
• ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2020-icnrg-04/session/icnrg

Tentative Agenda

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  1   Chairs’ Presentation                       Chairs          05 min

  2   Recap of Recent FLIC discussion            TBD             20 min

  3   Update on QoS Treatments Draft             Anil Jangam     20 min

  4   NDN-based pub/sub system                   Namseok Ko      30 min

  5   NDN-based Blockchain                       Quang Tung Thai 30 min

  6   Producer Anonymity based on Onion Routing  Toru Hasegawa   30 min

  7   A Data-centric View on the Web of Things   Cenk Gündoğan   15 min

  8   Other Business                             all             TBD
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Past ICNRG meetings

All agendas, meeting materials and minutes of past ICNRG meetings can be found at: ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/icnrg/meetings

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Related Events

• ​ACM SIGCOMM ICN-2019 Conference

Past events

Related RFCs

• RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes

Related Information

Here we list ICN overview articles and tutorials:

• Information-Centric Networking in IEEE Communications Magazine, ​July 2012 ​December 2012 ​June 2019
• Information-Centric Networking in Computer Communications, ​April 2013
• Information-Centric Networking in IEEE Network, ​May-June 2014
• ​Liaison Statement from ITU-T SG13 to IRTF ICNRG

(please contact us if there is something you think should be listed here)

Related Research Projects

• ​https://wiki.fd.io/view/cicn
• ​http://www.sail-project.eu/; ​http://netinf.org
• ​http://www.ccnx.org/
• ​http://www.named-data.net/
• ​http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki/DONA
• ​http://www.fp7-pursuit.eu/PursuitWeb/
• ​http://www.comet-project.org/
• ​http://www.anr-connect.org/
• ​http://www.ict-convergence.eu/
• ​http://www.greenicn.org/
• ​http://www.named-function.net/
• ​http://www.ccn-lite.net/
• ​http://www.umobile-project.eu/
• ​http://www.point-h2020.eu/
• ​http://rife-project.eu/
• ​http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/comit-project/
• ​http://ndnsim.net
• ​http://i3.realmv6.org/
• ​http://www.icn2020.org/
• ​http://www.doctor-project.org
• ​https://cefore.net/

(please contact us if you want to have your project listed here)

ICN evaluation tools and testbeds

Here you can find a listing of ICN evaluation tools and testbeds, please see IcnEvaluationAndTestbeds

Older Material

Older presentations, drafts that are not part of any meeting proceedings can be found ​in our archive.

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