Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG)

The official ICNRG web page can be found at ​http://irtf.org/icnrg

For information that was previously found at this page please refer to PreRgEvents which contains a record of things that happened before the the ICNRG was formed.

This page is now used for keeping track of current work items for the ICNRG, collect minutes of meetings, announcements of events and for other information relevant to the ICNRG ongoing activities.

ICNRG work items

ICNRG current work items

• ICN Survey document
  • A document that provides a survey of different approaches and techniques
• ICN Research Challenges
  • A document that describes the ICN problem statement, the main concepts and research challenges in depth.
• ICN Baseline Scenarios
  • A document that defines reference baseline scenarios to enable performance comparisons between different approaches.

ICNRG proposed work items

• ...

ICNRG events

Next ICNRG meeting will be held at IETF87 in Berlin

There will be an ICNRG meeting @ IETF-87 in Berlin in July. We will ask to have the meeting scheduled in the beginning of the week (Note: No promise though, we have little control over the IETF scheduling.)

ICNRG Working Meeting: Sunday July 28th in Berlin

To prepare for the meeting we are planning to have a full-day working meeting for the documents on Sunday July 28th in Berlin. If you're interested in participating in that meeting, please send a mail to Börje Ohlman. Please put "ICNRG Berlin working meeting" in the subject line of that mail. Please make sure to register for the working meeting as the seats will be limited.

Time: 9:00-17:00 (Preliminary)

Location: ​Pascalstrasse 10, 10587, Berlin, Germany (kindly hosted by Huawei Technologies).

Note: Space is limited. Registrations will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Participants registered for the Sunday meeting

#	Name	E-mail	Comment
1	Börje Ohlman	Borje.Ohlman at ericsson.com
2	Kostas Pentikousis	k.pentikousis at huawei.com
3	Damien Saucez	damien.saucez at gmail.com
4	Joerg Ott	jo at netlab.tkk.fi
5	Dirk Kutscher	Dirk.Kutscher at neclab.eu
6	Bengt Ahlgren	bengt.ahlgren at sics.se>
7	Stephen Farrell	stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie
8	Mark Stapp	mjs at cisco.com
9	Spiros Spirou	spis at intracom.com
10	Daniel Corujo	dcorujo at av.it.pt
11	Elwyn Davies	davieseb at scss.tcd.ie
12	Ignacio Solis	ignacio.solis at parc.com
13	Asanga Udugama	adu at comnets.uni-bremen.de
14	Jan Seedorf	seedorf at neclab.eu
15	Markus Vahlenkamp	markus at vahlenkamp.net
##	NN	NN at foo.com	xxx

Proposed agenda items

• Discussing the baseline documents
• ICN Wireless Sensor and Actor Network BaseLine Scenarios (N.T. Dinh)
  • ​http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dinh-icn-sensor-scenarios/
• Draft on NetInf protocol over Bluetooth
• ...

ICNRG interim meeting in Hong Kong

We are going to have an ICNRG meeting on Sunday, August 11, i.e., the day before the SIGCOMM conference.

Time: 9:00-17:00 (Preliminary) Location: Hong Kong City University (kindly hosted by Jianping Wang)

"Participants registered for the Sunday meeting"

Name	E-mail	Comment
Dave Oran	oran at cisco.com
Dirk Kutscher	Dirk.Kutscher at neclab.eu
Börje Ohlman	Borje.Ohlman at ericsson.com
Jianping Wang	jianwang at cityu.edu.hk
Will Liu
Hongbin Luo	hbluo at bjtu.edu.cn
Priya Mahadevan	priya.mahadevan at parc.com
Ignacio Solis	ignacio.solis at parc.com
Damien Saucez	damien.saucez at inria.fr
NN	NN at foo.com	xxx

"Topics, presentations"

Title	Presenter	Affiliation
SAR: Coupling Service Location with (Inter-domain) Routing, Decoupling Them From Forwarding	Hongbin Luo	Beijing Jiaotong University

Other ICNRG events

• IAB review of ICNRG at IETF86 in Orlando
  • Börje Ohlman and Dave Oran presented the ICNRG to the IAB at the IETF86 in Orlando. We got interested questions and there was some good discussion. The slides presented were:
    • ​ICNRG IAB Review slides - Börje Ohlman
    • ​ICN for Content Distribution - IAB Review at IETF86 - Dave Oran

Past ICNRG events

Meeting	Location	Date	Agenda & Logistics	Meeting materials	Minutes
1st ICNRG meeting @ IETF84	Vancouver, B.C., Canada	July 2012	​Agenda	​Material	​Minutes
2nd ICNRG meeting @ IETF85	Atlanta, Georgia, USA	November 2012	​Agenda	​Material	​Minutes
3rd ICNRG meeting (Interim)	Kista, Stockholm, Sweden	February 2013	​Agenda	​Material	​Minutes
4th ICNRG meeting @ IETF86	Orlando, Florida, USA	March 2013	​Agenda	​Material	​Minutes

Related Information

• Information-Centric Networking in IEEE Communications Magazine, ​July 2012 ​December 2012
• Information-Centric Networking in Computer Communications, ​April 2013
• ​Liaison Statement from ITU-T SG13 to IRTF ICNRG
• ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dannewitz-ppsp-secure-naming/
• RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes

Related Conferences and Workshops

ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Information-Centric Networking ​2011 ​2012 ​2013

IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Emerging Design Choices in Name-Oriented Networking ​2012 ​2013

CCNxCon ​2012 ​2013

Dagstuhl Seminar on ICN ​2010

SAIL/EFRAIM workshop on Future Media Distribution using ICN ​2013

Related Open Call For Papers

Journals

• IEEE Network Special Issue on ​Information-Centric Networking Beyond Baseline Scenarios: Research Advances and Implementation

Conferences and Workshops

• PV 2013: Special Session on ​Video Delivery over Information-Centric Networks

Related Research Projects

• ​http://www.sail-project.eu/
• ​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/

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Mailing List

We have set up a mailing list for discussing ICN topics. Please consider subscribing to that list: ​http://irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/icnrg

Contact

Börje Ohlman, Dirk Kutscher, Dave Oran