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NDN Simulation Study Plan

Reading notes and a planned ndnSIM workflow for studying Named Data Networking behavior. This page does not claim completed simulation results.

Problem

NDN changes the center of networking from host addresses to named content. The planned exercises are intended to make forwarding, caching, Interest/Data exchange, and topology behavior observable through simulation.

Architecture

The proposed workflow is: define a topology, configure producers and consumers, choose forwarding and cache behavior, run the scenario, retain output, and compare it against an explicit baseline. These are planned steps, not evidence that a run has already been completed.

Technologies

• ndnSIM and NS-3 as the planned simulation environment.
• NFD documentation for forwarding behavior and strategy vocabulary.
• Interest/Data exchange, cache policy, and forwarding metrics as study questions.
• Scenario notes linking each proposed run to its source and expected observation.

What exists now

• A study structure for NDN concepts and candidate observations.
• A proposed comparison of cache policies and forwarding strategies.
• A diagram showing how a paper could be translated into a simulation scenario.
• No dedicated public source repository or retained result set yet.

Proposed workflow

Next steps

• Publish a dedicated NDN simulation repository with topology files and run instructions.
• Add result tables for cache hit ratio, delay, throughput, and retransmissions.
• Connect each experiment to a short reading note in the library section.