ICN Update after IETF-99
Here is a quick (eclectic) summary of recent events in ICN at/around IETF-99 last week. ICNRG met twice: for a full-day meeting on Sunday and for a regular meeting on Wednesday. (Find a list of all past meeting, agendas, meeting materials, and minutes here.)
Edge Computing and ICN
We presented a summary of the recent Workshop on Information-Centric Fog Computing (ICFC) at IFIP Networking 2017, which featured a few papers on ICN edge computing in IoT and on Named Function Networking, one specific approach to marry access to static data and dynamic computing in ICN.
Moreover, Eve Schooler from Intel announced the three selected projects of the recent Intel/NSF-sponsored call for proposals for projects on ICN in the wireless edge:
- ICN-Enabled Secure Edge Networking with Augmented Reality (ICE-AR) (UCLA, New Mexico State University);
- SPLICE: Secure Predictive Low-Latency Information Centric Edge for Next Generation Wireless Networks (Texas A&M, Washington University St. Louis, Purdue, Ohio State, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); and
- Light-Speed Networking (LSN): Refactoring the Wireless Network Stack to Dramatically reduce Information Response Time (U. Massachusetts-Amherst, U. Wisconsin-Madison).
Lixia Zhang presented an overview of the first project on Augmented Reality and described how the project conceives AR as one of several applications that can leverage a web of browsable named data, based on decentralized multiparty context-content exchange.
Finally, Yiannis Psaras presented his paper on Keyword-Based Mobile Application Sharing through Information-Centric Connectivity that won the Best Paper Award at ACM MobiArch 2016. In this paper, the authors describe a cloud-independent content and application sharing platform based on ICN.
ICN Demos
Luca Muscariello and Marcel Enguehard presented an overview of the Community ICN (CICN) activity in the Linux Foundation fd.io project and showed a demo of the software and their emulation environment.
CICN consists of several Open Source ICN implementations, including an efficient VPP-based forwarder implementations. Cisco made this software available after acquiring PARC's implementation earlier this year.
ICN Specifications Moving Forward Towards Publication
ICNRG has completed its (research group) last calls on the two core specifications for the CCNx variant of ICN:
The fd.io CICN implementations are based on these specifications (that are intended to be published as Experimental RFCs).
ICNRG also started the Last Call for an Internet Draft on Research Directions for Using ICN in Disaster Scenarios that is intended to be published as an Informal RFC. There are a few additional documents that are nearing completion -- see our Wiki for more information.
Upcoming Things
There a few exciting events around ICN taking place this summer/fall.
The ACM SIGCOMM ICN Conference 2017 is embedded into a week of cool ICN and IoT events:
- IRTF Thing-to-Thing-Research-Group meeting on September 23/24 (Saturday/Sunday)
- RIOT Summit 2017 on September 25/26 (Monday/Tuesday)
- The ICN Conference itself from September 26 through 26 (Tuesday through Thursday)
- IRTF ICNRG meeting on September 27 (Friday)
Moreover, ICNRG plans to meet at IETF-100, most likely on Sunday, November 11 and during the following week.
If you are working on ICN Security, there a current Call For Papers for an IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Information-Centric Networking Security.