Hybrid Information-Centric Networking
Introduction
Hybrid ICN is a computer network architecture designed at Cisco Systems that brings ICN into IPv6. By doing that, hICN allows extending IPv6 networking with location-independent name-based networking. This is made both at the network layer and at the transport layer by also providing name-based sockets to applications.
hICN allows reusing existing IPv6 protocols and architectures, to extend them and deploy hybrid solutions based on the use case and application needs. Moreover, hICN can exploit hardware and software implementations heavily based on IP, making its insertion much simpler compared to other ICN technologies. hICN design is highly inspired by the CCN architecture; nonetheless, it is realised by using the Internet protocol with additional features.
Software
Hybrid ICN has been open sourced by Cisco in the "Fast Data project" in January 2019 under the Apache 2.0 Software License.
References
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- ↑ Muscariello, L., Carofiglio, G., Auge, J., and M. Papalini, "Hybrid Information-Centric Networking", "draft-muscariello-intarea-hicn-01" (work in progress), December 2018.
- ↑ Fast Data Project, Hybrid ICN "Wiki page"
