Named-data Link State Routing(NLSR)¶

Named-data Link State Routing (NLSR) is routing for NDN under development.

NLSR's development is going on top of

• ndn-cpp-dev
• NFD
• ChronoSync

UML of NLSR is available at NLSR-UML¶

NLSR's design¶

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
• Stores Link State Advertisement (LSA) in Link State Database (LSDB)