4th NDN Project Retreat

CAIDA hosted the NDN Project's fourth retreat on November 12-13, 2013. This meeting was by invitation only.

| NDN Retreat Participants |

Date: November 12 (Tue) - 13 (Wed), 2013
Place: Weaver Conference Center, Malamud Room, Institute of the Americas
UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA

About NDN

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. The project studies the technical challenges that must be addressed to validate NDN as a future Internet architecture: routing scalability, fast forwarding, trust models, network security, content protection and privacy, and fundamental communication theory. The project uses end-to-end testbed deployments, simulation, and theoretical analysis to evaluate the proposed architecture, and is developing specifications and prototype implementations of NDN protocols and applications.

Agenda

November 12 (Tuesday)

08:00 - 08:45 breakfast
- Office hours for participants needing help with wireless setup during the retreat
08:45 - 09:00 Introductions: logistics, agenda bashing
09:00 - 10:45 Practice talks for FIA meeting
- Beichuan Zhang, Management of faults
- Jeff Burke, Internet of Things
- John Dehart, Performance in Named Data Networking
- Lan Wang, Routing in NDN
10:45 - 11:00 break
11:00 - 12:30 Discussion of research agenda for next year
- Beichuan Zhang, NDNfd Development
- Discussion
12:30 - 13:20 lunch
13:30 - 16:40 Discussion research agenda for next year, cont'd.

Edmund Yeh, Forwarding and Caching Optimizations
Yingdi Yu, Trust model management/design
Christos Papadopoulos, Climate Research using NDN
Giovanni Pau, Car2X mobility support
Alex Afanasyev, Mobility support in NDN: based on ChronoShare use case

16:00 - 16:20 break

Steve DiBenedetto, Content Poisoning Mitigation in NDN

16:40 - 18:00 Open discussion: filling gaps between applications and lower layers
Moderator: Jeff Burke
- Topic: How apps choose naming conventions,...
- Topic: TBD
- Feedback from external visitors
18:00 - 20:30 Reception on-site and demo/poster session
- Demos/Poster Sessions
  Coordinator: Josh Polterock
  - Jeff Thompson and Wentao Shang, Browser access to NDNFS
  - Peter Gusev, NDN Real-Time=Conferencing too
  - Anmol Rajpurohit, NDNexplore + trace
  - Susmit Shannigrahi, Steve DiBenedetto, NDN for Scientific Data
  - Ryan Bennett, Steve DiBenedetto, NDN Federated Wiki
- Informal testbed discussions for those interested
- Office hours for getting NDNx/app software working (http://named-data.net/download/)

November 13 (Wednesday)

08:00 - 08:45 breakfast
08:45 - 09:00 Review of previous day; Agenda bashing
09:00 - 11:30 NDN Code Base: Status and plans for next year
Moderator: Jeff Burke
- Jeff Thompson, NDN Common Client Libraries
- Alex Afanasyev, NDNx binary release
- John Dehart, NDN Managed gateways and the NDN Testbed
- Jeff Burke, NDN browser programming and Application Nodes
11:30 - 12:10 Protocol (and packet format) specification issues
- Cases for various features of protocol
12:10 - 12:50 Values in Design Team Activities
- Katie Shilton and Jeff Burke, A World on NDN
12:50 - 14:00 working lunch
- Office hours for getting software working on laptops testbed policy document
14:00 - 15:00 Industry perspectives: What they need, research-wise and code-wise
- Eve Schooler, Intel perspective (annotated pptx)
- Eiichi Muramoto, Panasonic perspective
- Cisco
15:00 - 15:30 Open discussion
15:30 - 15:45 break
15:45 - 16:15 Outreach mechanisms
- NDN web site, wiki, seminars: issues, suggestions for improvement
- NDN community meeting plans
16:15 - 16:45 Adjourn, wrap-up, plan satellite submeetings

Local Arrangements / Getting to UCSD

Hotel

For this meeting, all attendees are still expected to make their own hotel reservations and transportation arrangements from their hotels to the meeting. The Estancia La Jolla hotel is also right across the street from the retreat location.
For CAIDA's list of recommended local hotels including UCSD group rates and shuttle availability, see the most recent Recommended Hotels list (PDF). Contact the hotel directly for hotel shuttle schedules (if available) to the Institute of the Americas on UCSD Campus.
Transportation options
- Shuttle to Hotels: SuperShuttle can be arranged to shuttle to UCSD campus or your hotel.
- Taxis: Yellow Cab of San Diego.
- Car rental: Available at the airport
Meeting Room

The retreat will be held in the Weaver Center, Malamud Room at the Institute of the Americas on the University of California San Diego (UCSD) campus. For directions to the Institute of the Americas, visit their website at http://www.iamericas.org/en/