Multimedia Kommunikation (KOM)

The Information Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm promises deconstraining the current Internet architecture by allowing clients to directly address the desired content throughout the network. For the Internet this is a further evolutionary step from the idea of a narrow-waist core that only transports requests/replies to an intelligent architecture searching for and providing content. Recently, Future Internet research activities have proposed a new, non-IP-based approach that is generally described as Information-Centric Networking (ICN) [1]. While several instantiations of this approach exist, recent focus has been on Content-Centric Networking (CCN) [2] and its evolution Named Data Networking (NDN) [3]. One of the foci of NDN is to move from location-based addressing in the current Internet to a content-based addressing in the future. Goal The goal of this master thesis is to develop a monitoring architecture and a prototype implementation of this architecture for Information Centric Networks. This architecture will be designed for Named Data Networking (one of the recent ICN instantiation) and subsequently deployed on a real testbed and evaluated in this context. While research activities and experiments in the NDN world are becoming increasingly more popular, there is no common tool to monitor such experiments. Such a monitoring tool is essential since it will aid researchers and network engineers to analyze the performance of NDN. Due to the fundamental differences between IP and NDN a new monitoring architecture has to be designed. This architecture will have to focus on NDN specific aspects: PIT and FIB (do not exist in IP routers) monitoring Different granularities of monitoring Distributed monitoring Prerequisites and formal aspects Start: immediately Duration: 3-6 months depending on the type of the thesis and the applied study pla