Integrating IP and NDN through an extensible IP-NDN gateway

Abstract

Named Data Networks (NDN) is an emerging data centric networking paradigm that provides an efficient and resilient communication model. To facilitate experimentation and integration of NDN, we introduce a general purpose/extensible IP-to-NDN gateway. The gateway enables applications modeled after the IP client-server model to operate seamlessly through an NDN cloud. These applications can then gain the benefits of NDN without having to be recoded or redesigned. We focus our demonstration on applications operating in challenged network environments (e.g. military tactical networks). We integrate Cursor-on-Target (CoT) [1], a message router used for situational awareness, as well as XMPP Overlay (XOP) [3], a decentralized chat application, into an NDN cloud. We show the ease of integration and the benefits these applications gain from NDN under severely disrupted network conditions.