Dr. Ankit Gangwal is leading the global NDN testbed initiative at IIIT Hyderabad. IIIT Hyderabad is among the very few institutes from around the world to be a part of this initiative and this NDN node is up and fully functional. More information is available at:
- Node status: http://ndntestbed.iiit.ac.in/ and http://ndntestbed.iiit.ac.in/n/
- Global network: http://ndndemo.arl.wustl.edu/
The Named Data Networking (NDN) project aims to develop a new Internet architecture that can capitalize on strengths — and address weaknesses — of the Internet’s current host-based, point-to-point communication architecture in order to naturally accommodate emerging patterns of communication. By naming data instead of their locations, NDN transforms data into a first-class entity. The current Internet secures the data container. NDN secures the contents, a design choice that decouples trust in data from trust in hosts, enabling several radically scalable communication mechanisms such as automatic caching to optimize bandwidth.