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Conceptually NLSR is divided into four modules
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1. Core
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2. Communication
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3. Routing
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4. Security
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### 1. Core Module
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- Read and parse configuration file
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- Stores all configurable parameter values
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- Stores Adjacent in Adjacency list
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- Stores advertising names in name prefix list
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- Establishing Adjacencies with neighbors
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- Build LSAs
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- Stores Link State Advertisement (LSA) in Link State Database (LSDB)
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### 2. Communication Module 
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- Handles synchronization logic of NLSR's LSDB updates
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- Publish LSDB updates in router name
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- Upon update notification send interest for LSAs
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- Publish certificates updates
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- Send interest to fetch certificates
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- Processes all inbound/outbound interest/data of NLSR
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### 3. Routing Module
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- Calculate routing table ( depending configuration use link - state routing calculator or Hyperbolic routing calculator)
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- Stores routing table 
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- Creates and store Name prefix table ( Name prefix table entry is Name Prefix with nexthops list to reach that name)
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### 4. Security Module ( This module will no longer be available later when NLSR will use NFD's rule based validator)
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- Fetch, validate and stores certificate in Certificate Store
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- If some certificate is fetched but waiting to be validated is recorded in waiting list
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- After validation it is added in the certificate store otherwise discarded
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- Validate each piece of data received by NLSR
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- Sign data using router process keys before sending out