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Junxiao Shi, 09/08/2014 05:19 PM

Strategy Choice Management

Strategy Choice Management is a module of NFD Management protocol.
It provides:

  • commands to choose the forwarding strategy for a namespace
  • a dataset of strategy choices

Strategy Choice Management commands and datasets are published in namespace ndn:/localhost/nfd/strategy-choice.

Strategy

A strategy is identified by a Name.

NFD currently supports builtin strategies only. The following strategies are available:

  • ndn:/localhost/nfd/strategy/best-route
  • ndn:/localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast
  • ndn:/localhost/nfd/strategy/client-control
  • ndn:/localhost/nfd/strategy/ncc

Each strategy listed above may have one or more versions. Strategy version is increased when there is a major behavior change; bugfixes usually won't bump strategy version. The version number is appended to strategy Name.

Control Commands

ControlCommand management-module: strategy-choice

Set the strategy for a namespace

command-verb: set

ControlParameters fields:

  • Name (required)
  • Strategy (required)

Name is the Name prefix on which the strategy is selected.

Strategy must be a Name that represents a builtin strategy.

It could be either an unversioned Name to select the latest version of a strategy, or a versioned Name to select a specific version. It's recommended to use an unversioned Name so that the latest strategy version is picked.

If Strategy does not match any builtin strategy, the command fails with code 504.

If the command succeeds, <Body> in ControlResponse block contains updated ControlParameters:

  • Name: unchanged
  • Strategy: versioned strategy Name

Unset the strategy for a namespace

command-verb: unset

ControlParameters fields:

  • Name (required)

After this operation, the effective strategy at Name is inherited from the parent.

If there is no strategy defined at Name, this command does nothing, but is still considered successful.

Name must not be ndn:/, otherwise the command fails with code 403.

Strategy Choice Dataset

Strategy choices for namespaces are published as a Status Dataset at ndn:/localhost/nfd/strategy-choice/list.

Each face is represented by a StrategyChoice block:

StrategyChoice := STRATEGY-CHOICE-TYPE TLV-LENGTH
                    Name
                    Strategy
  • Name is the namespace on which a strategy is chosen.
  • Strategy is the strategy chosen for this namespace.

TLV-TYPE assignments

Type Assigned value Assigned value (hex)
StrategyChoice 128 0x80

Updated by Junxiao Shi about 10 years ago · 16 revisions