NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)¶

NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD) is a new NDN forwarder under development.
Its first release is scheduled for March 2014.

NFD conforms to these network protocols and specifications:

• CCNx protocol
• NDN-TLV packet format
• NDNLP-TLV for Ethernet communication
• NFD local control header (to be defined) for local applications
• Signed Interests specification
• NFD Control Command specification
• NFD Face Management protocol (to be defined)
• NFD FIB Management protocol

Developer Resources¶

UML diagrams¶

• NFD-UML

platform and libraries¶

• C++ 03, code style guidelines
• Boost >=1.42.0, we use a limited set of Boost libraries
• Boost Unit Test Framework, more information on unit testing
• NDN-CPP-TLV, client library that supports TLV.
• NDNx-TLV, package that translates between TLV and ccnb, to help migrate apps from ccnb to TLV.
• waf build system

development process¶

• gerrit code review, more information:
  • Git and Gerrit in Action
  • Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project

background knowledge¶

• knowledge about ccnd
• ndnSIM
• NDNFD
• Network Algorithmics by George Varghese