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

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

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

• CCNx test rig

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Upcoming ICNRG events

ICNRG Interim meeting @ IETF 96, Berlin, Germany, July 17, 2016

• Date: Sunday, July 17, 2016
• Time: 09:00-17:00
• Location: Berlin, InterContinental? Hotel
• Room: Charlottenburg I
• Etherpad for notes:

Suggestions, offerings for topics, presentations

• Topic, Proponent/Presenter?, requested time

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
2	Dave Oran	Cisco	lastname at cisco dot com	Sat	Sat	Hilton
3	Dirk Kutscher	NEC Laboratories Europe	firstname.lastname at neclab dot eu	-	-	-
4	Jan Seedorf	HFT Stuttgart	jan dot seedorf at hft-stuttgart dot de	-	-	-
5	Ioannis Psaras	University College London	i dot psaras at ucl dot ac dot uk	-	-	-
6	Vasilis Sourlas	University College London	v dot sourlas at ucl dot ac dot uk	-	-	-
7	Dirk Trossen	InterDigital? Europe	dirk.trossen at interdigital.com	Sat	-	-
8	Ravi Ravindran	Huawei	ravi.ravindran at Huawei.com	Sat	Fri	-	-
9	Bartosz Balazinski	Interdigital	bartosz.balazinski at interdigital dot com	-	-	-	-
10	Sebastian Woelke	HAW-Hamburg	firstname.lastname at posteo dot de	-	-	-	-
11	Lixia Zhang	UCLA	lixia at cs ucla edu	Sat	Fri	Pullman
12	Nilo Mitra	Ericsson	Nilo dot Mitra at ericsson dot com	Sun	Fri
13	Greg Rutz	CableLabs?	g dot rutz at cablelabs dot com	Sat	Fri	InterCon?
14	Marcel Enguehard	Cisco	mengueha at cisco dot com	Fri	Sun	-	-
15	Kostas Trichias	TNO Labs	firstname.lastname at tno.nl	Sun	Sun	-	Sunday Interim only
x	N N	Company	email@company	-	-	-

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ICNRG meeting @ IETF 96, Berlin, Germany, July, 2016

• Date: Thursday, July 21 2016
• Time: 10:00-12:30
• Location: Berlin, InterContinental? Hotel
• Room: Potsdam III
• Etherpad for notes: TBD

Suggestions, offerings for topics, presentations

• Topic, Proponent/Presenter?, requested time

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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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