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Icarus: a caching simulator for information centric networking (ICN)

Saino, L; Psaras, I; Pavlou, G; (2014) Icarus: a caching simulator for information centric networking (ICN). In: Barros, F and Perumalla, K and Ewald, R, (eds.) Proceedings of SIMUTools 2014: 7th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. (pp. pp. 66-75). ICST: Lisbon, Portugal. Green open access

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Abstract

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a new networking paradigm proposing a shift of the main network abstraction from host identifiers to location-agnostic content identifiers. So far, several architectures have been proposed implementing this paradigm shift. A key feature, common to all proposed architectures, is the in-network caching capability, enabled by the location-agnostic, explicit naming of contents. This aspect, in particular, has recently received considerable attention by the research community. However, despite this wide interest, there is a shortage of publicly-available tools suitable for evaluating the performance of caching systems effectively. In fact, all available simulators or emulators are either bound to a specific architecture or cannot execute simulations at the scale required and within a reasonable time-frame. To address these issues, we present Icarus, a Python-based caching simulator for ICN. Icarus allows users to evaluate caching strategies for any ICN implementation and also provides modelling tools useful for caching research.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Icarus: a caching simulator for information centric networking (ICN)
Event: SIMUTools 2014: 7th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques, 17 - 19 March 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
ISBN-13: 9781631900075
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2014.254630
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.simutools.2014.254630
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: ICN, caching, simulator, Design,Performance, Experimentation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502965
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