Large-Scale Emulation for Content Centric Network

Abstract

With the explosive growth in Internet Contents, Internet usage is shifting from host-to-host model to content dissemination model, like CDNs (content delivery networks) and CCN (content centric networking). Nowadays, CDNs have been widely deployed by ISPs (Internet service providers), content providers and other third parties, such as Akamai. And CCN (content centric networking) as a new Internet architecture, all the network data will be looked as content and routed via its name. Considering Akamai has more than 110,000 servers all over the world, we hope to deploy a comparable cluster system of CCN to evaluate its performance in this paper. So it's necessary to simplify the configuration and deployment. For this purpose, we use virtualization technology, an open source CCNx prototype including Mini-CCNx. After then we realize the topology structure that auto-configured by scripts. Some experiments are conducted to verify the cluster system feasibility. In this paper, a hierarchical large-scale deployment method is presented, which greatly reduces the time to build and deploy test bed.