Real-Time Video Streaming using CeforeSim: Simulator to the Real World

Abstract

Applications of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) technology to future internet of things (IoT) and distributed edge/fog computing are widely discussed in various research committees. In this paper, we demonstrate a real-time video streaming scenario using CeforeSim, an NS-3 based ICN simulator. CeforeSim is based on Cefore, an open-source implementation of ICN, which is compliant with the CCNx packet format standardized by the IRTF ICN Research Group (ICNRG). The virtual interfaces provisioned in CeforeSim expedite seamless interaction between the simulated nodes and physical nodes that run the Cefore applications, thereby affording performance evaluations in various scenarios, such as handover of mobile nodes, large-scale sensor networks, and distributed edge/fog computing with the real environments.