NDNBench: A benchmark for Named Data Networking lookup

Abstract

Content-centric Networking (CCN) and the later proposed Named Data Networking (NDN) have attracted wide attention in both academia and industry, as the clean slate future Internet architecture. Wire speed name lookup for packet forwarding is one of the most challenging tasks in CCN/NDN. As a promising technology, its feasibilities including reachable speed, scalability, and update performance are imperative to be deeply evaluated. However, CCN/NDN is currently on its initial stage and no actual network is deployed, which means no real name routing tables and NDN traffic are available. In order to fulfill performance comparisons among various innovative name lookup solutions and facilitate future name lookup researches, we present NDNBench, a publicly available platform for evaluation, comparison and experiments with different name lookup approaches. NDNBench can generate various Forwarding Information Bases (FIBs), traces with structure and size diversity to conduct the tests thoroughly by adjusting the parameters. NDNBench provides a simulation package tool with flexibility to evaluate various name lookup approaches. Furthermore, in order to verify the effectiveness of NDNBench, we benchmark some existing name lookup schemes and the results are very supportive. NDNBench has been applied to recent work and is publicly available at the following site: http://s-router.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/~zhangting/.