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Revision 1 (Lan Wang, 04/04/2014 01:14 PM) → Revision 2/16 (A K M Mahmudul Hoque, 04/16/2014 07:18 AM)

Module description 
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 Conceptually NLSR is divided into four modules 

 1. Core 
 2. Communication 
 3. Routing 
 4. Security 

 ### 1. Core Module 
 - Read and parse configuration file 
 - Stores all configurable parameter values 
 - Stores Adjacent in Adjacency list 
 - Stores advertising names in name prefix list 
 - Build LSAs 
 - Stores Link State Advertisement (LSA) in Link State Database (LSDB) 

 ### 2. Communication Module  
 - Handles synchronization logic of NLSR's LSDB updates 
 - Publish LSDB updates in router name 
 - Upon update notification send interest for LSAs 
 - Publish certificates updates 
 - Send interest to fetch certificates 
 - Processes all inbound/outbound interest/data of NLSR 

 ### 3. Routing Module 
 - Calculate routing table ( depending configuration use link - state routing calculator or Hyperbolic routing calculator) 
 - Stores routing table  
 - Creates and store Name prefix table ( Name prefix table entry is Name Prefix with nexthops list to reach that name) 

 ### 4. Security Module ( This module will no longer be available later when NLSR will use NFD's rule based validator) 
 - Fetch, validate and stores certificate in Certificate Store 
 - If some certificate is fetched but waiting to be validated is recorded in waiting list 
 - After validation it is added in the certificate store otherwise discarded 
 - Validate each piece of data received by NLSR 
 - Sign data using router process keys before sending out