Capture and Analysis of Traffic Traces on a Wide-Area NDN Testbed

Published

October 8, 2023

Author(s)

Sankalpa Timilsina, Davide Pesavento, Junxiao Shi, Susmit Shannigrahi, Lotfi Benmohamed

Abstract

High-quality network traffic measurements from realistic network deployments are crucial to analyze and better understand emerging network technologies for the purpose of maturing them. However, achieving this measurement goal for the Named Data Networking (NDN) protocol remains a challenge mainly due to the lack of real-world deployments. To address this gap, we have created a dataset of NDN traffic traces and a software toolkit for capturing, analyzing, and replaying these traces. Our dataset, obtained directly from the real routers of the official NDN testbed, is the first non-synthetic dataset of this scale openly available to the research community. This paper presents the dataset and the tools, discusses its properties, and shares insights applicable to other NDN research.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking

Conference Dates

October 9-10, 2023

Conference Location

Reykjavik, IS

Conference Title

10th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2023)

Pub Type

Conferences

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3623565.3623707

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Keywords

traffic analysis, packet trace, wide area network, testbed, named data networking, video streaming, file transfer, realistic traffic

Citation

Timilsina, S. , Pesavento, D. , Shi, J. , Shannigrahi, S. and Benmohamed, L. (2023), Capture and Analysis of Traffic Traces on a Wide-Area NDN Testbed, Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, Reykjavik, IS, [online], https://doi.org/10.1145/3623565.3623707, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=956343 (Accessed October 24, 2025)