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
• ​Datatracker

Contact ICNRG chairs

Börje Ohlman, Dirk Kutscher, Dave Oran

ICNRG Documents

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.

ICNRG work items

• ​CCNx Messages in TLV Format
• ​CCNx Semantics
• ​ICN Research Challenges
  • A document that describes the ICN problem statement, the main concepts and research challenges in depth. This document is currently undergoing IRSG review.
• ​ICN Evaluation Methodology
  • This document surveys the evaluation tools currently available to researchers in the information-centric networking (ICN) area and provides suggestions regarding methodology and metrics. (This work was initially part of the Scenarios work and document, but has now been split out as a separate work item and draft.)
• ​Adaptive Video Streaming over ICN

Other 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

• ​CCN-Lite
• ​CCNx
• ​Named Data Networking
• ​RIOT Project

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Upcoming ICNRG events

ICNRG Interim meeting @ IETF 95, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 3, 2016

• Date: Sunday April 3, 2016
• Time: 09:00-17:00
• Location: Buenos Aires, ​Hilton Hotel
• Room: Buen Ayre C
• Etherpad for notes: ​https://neclab.titanpad.com/ICNRG-BA-Sunday

Agenda

• 09:00-10:30 Session 1
  • NDN architectural principles, ​http://named-data.net/project/ndn-design-principles/ - Jeff Burke
  • Discussion (possibly break outs)
• 10:30-11:00 Break
• 11:30-12:30 Session 2
  • CCNx simulator announcement (Marc Mosko)
  • Software distribution overview (Nacho Solis)
  • Compression (Marc Mosko)
• 12:30-14:00 Lunch
• 14:00-15:30 Session 3
  • Privacy
    • Intro (Dirk
    • Private Communication in ICN -- Chris
    • Approaching Privacy over ICN: Values-in-Design Approach -- Jeff
    • CCNx-KE vs (D)TLS -- Chris
    • Session-Based Content Distribution with CCNx-KE -- Chris
    • Meaningful privacy protection in ICN -- Stephen
    • Discussion
• 15:30-16:00 Break
• 16:00-17:00 Session 4
  • ​https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ravi-ccn-forwarding-label-01
  • ​https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ravi-ccn-notification-00
  • Name Resolution (Jungha)

Meeting material: ​http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/interim/2016/04/03/icnrg/proceedings.html

Postponed items:

• Object security and protected object manipulation in caches - Jörg Ott (postponed till Berlin as Jörg will not make it to BA)

​Ericsson is kindly sponsoring refreshments during the morning and afternoon breaks.

Registration - Please register for the interim meeting You can register either by directly adding your name in the table below or by sending an email to the ICNRG chairs.

#	Name	Affiliation	Email	Arriving	Departing	Hotel	Comments
1	Börje Ohlman	Ericsson Research	Borje dot Ohlman at ericsson dot com	Fri	Fri	Hilton
2	Dave Oran	Cisco	lastname at cisco dot com	Fri	Fri	Hilton
3	Dirk Kutscher	NEC Laboratories Europe	firstname.lastname at neclab dot eu	-	-	-
4	Greg Rutz	CableLabs?	g dot rutz at cablelabs dot com	Sat	Wed	Hilton
5	Ravi Ravindran	Huawei	ravi.ravindran@…	Sat	Fri	Sheraton
6	Greg White	CableLabs?	g dot white at cablelabs dot com	Sat	Fri	Hilton
7	Bastiaan Wissingh	TNO Netherlands	bastiaan dot wissingh at tno dot nl	Sat	Sat	-
8	Nacho Solis	PARC	ignacio.solis@…	Sat	Fri	-
9	Marc Mosko	PARC	first.last@…	Sat	Fri	-
10	Chris Wood	PARC	first.last@…	Sat	Fri	-
11	Jeff Burke	UCLA	burke at dot ucla dot edu	-	-	-
12	Bartosz Balazinski	Interdigital	bartosz.balazinski@…	Fri	Fri	Hilton
13	Christian Groves	Huawei	firstname.lastname at huawei.com	Fir	Fri	Holiday Inn
14	Georgios Karagiannis	Huawei	firstname.lastname at huawei.com	-	-	-
15	Glenn Deen	Nbcuniversal	rgd dot ietf at gmail dot com	-	-	-
16	Stephen Farrell	TCD	firstname.lastname at cs.tcd.ie	-	-	-
17	Jungha Hong	ETRI	jhong at extra dot re dot kr	-	-	-
18	Wansun Lim	ETRI	wslim at extra dot re dot kr	-	-	-
19	Ray van Brandenburg	TNO Netherlands	firstname dot lastname at tno dot nl	Sat	Sat	-
20	Hannu Flink	Nokia	hannu.flinck at nokia dot com	Sat	Sat	Holiday Inn
21	Ralf Droms	Cisco	rdroms at cisco dot com	Fri	Fri	Hilton
x	N N	Company	email@company	-	-	-

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ICNRG meeting @ IETF 95, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 7, 2016

• Date: Thursday, April 7
• Time: 10:00-12:30
• Location: Buenos Aires, ​Hilton Hotel
• Room: Buen Ayre B
• Etherpad for notes: ​https://neclab.titanpad.com/ICNRG-BA-Thursday

Proposed Agenda

• Welcome, Agenda Bashing, Minutes taker, Bluesheets, Status - Chairs (10 min)
• Reports from interim meetings in Paris and Buenos Aires -- 15 min
• CableLabs? white paper presentation (30 min)
• Small specification updates (Marc/Nacho/Chris?) (20 min)
• CCNx (was LCI) naming document updates (Marc/Nacho/Chris?) (30 min)
• IoT (30 min) -- postponed as Ravi could not make it
  • ​https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zhang-icn-iot-architecture-00
• Discussion on future work items/topics (20 min)
  • Possible Interop in Berlin?
  • Routing
  • Application design experience/considerations
• Wrap up, Next meetings (10 min)
  • Interim in Berlin?
  • Interim i Japan in conjunction with ACM ICN-2016 conference

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Past ICNRG meetings

icnrg/pastmeetings

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Related Events

• ​ACM SIGCOMM ICN 2016 Conference
• ​IEEE Infocom 2016 Workshop on Named-Oriented Mobility: Architecture, Algorithms and Applications
• ​IEEE Infocom 2016 Workshop on Multimedia Streaming in ICN

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
• Information-Centric Networking in Computer Communications, ​April 2013
• ​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

• ​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

(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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