NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD)¶

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

NFD implements the following specifications:

• NDN-TLV packet format
• NFD-related NDN-TLV Type assignments
• NDNLP-TLV for Ethernet communication
• NFD Management protocol for internal use
• NFD Configuration file format
• [[NRD:NRD Prefix Registration protocol]] for publisher applications to use
• NDN hub discovery procedure to discover hub nodes on the NDN testbed.

Developer Resources¶

UML diagrams¶

• NFD-UML

platform and libraries¶

• C++ 03, code style guidelines
• Boost >=1.48.0, we use a limited set of Boost libraries
• Boost Unit Test Framework, more information on unit testing
• ndn-cpp-dev, Extended version of NDN C++ client library
• waf build system
• Using NDN-CCL with NFD, NDN-CCL

development process¶

• gerrit code review, more information:
  • Git and Gerrit in Action
  • Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project
  • Gerrit Code Review - A Quick Introduction
• gcov code coverage
• IntegratedTests

background knowledge¶

• knowledge about ccnd
• CCNx protocol
• ndnSIM
• NDNFD