Demonstrating a unified ICN development and evaluation framework

Abstract

Information-Centric Networking solutions target world-wide deployment in the Internet. It is hence necessary to dispose of a development and evaluation environment which enables both controllable and realistic experimentation to thoroughly understand how ICN solutions would behave in real life deployment. In this demonstration, we present an ICN development and evaluation framework that combines emulation and live prototyping environments to provide ICN designers and implementers the means to build ``beyond-prototype'' ICN solutions. We will demonstrate the benefits of such integrated approach by showing how complete experimental studies can be carried out with minimum manual intervention and experiment set-up overhead, in both emulation and live environments.