Dear 'Named Data Networking' researchers,
As you know the current Vanilla NDN works over IP. If we assume that NDN architecture become the used Internet Architecture instead of TCP/IP, what will be the address of the final users (source of interest packet)? The physical address?!
In other words, does the interface in the FIB equal to physical address?
If not, for the case of wireless interfaces, we may have multiple users connecting through the same interface entry (university router for instance) How the address problem is solved when the data arrives back?
In a non-local network context, each FIB entry contains a name prefix and a network interface (which represents a next hop). When running over IP, the network interface could be represented as an IP tunnel to the next hop.
In a local network, if NDN is running directly over link protocol (like Ethernet), then yes, the local FIB entry may contain a link protocol MAC addr.
Specifically, for wireless local network, researchers from Stony Brook University found there is no need for a per-host addr, so they are developing a name-based link layer protocol which focus on the data name instead of a per-host MAC addr.
No address...NDN is information-centric. No addresses are carried. You look for the data, not for hosts.
NDN follows a pull-based, receiver-driven model. If an app wants some info, it has first to express an interest (send an Interest packet) for that info. So data (Data packets) simply breadcrumb .
Dear Rute C. Sofia thank you for your response, even though this is not what I really meant!
In a non-local network context, each FIB entry contains a name prefix and a network interface (which represents a next hop). When running over IP, the network interface could be represented as an IP tunnel to the next hop.
In a local network, if NDN is running directly over link protocol (like Ethernet), then yes, the local FIB entry may contain a link protocol MAC addr.
Specifically, for wireless local network, researchers from Stony Brook University found there is no need for a per-host addr, so they are developing a name-based link layer protocol which focus on the data name instead of a per-host MAC addr.
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