Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (hICN)

Introduction

hicn is an open source implementation of Cisco's hICN. It includes a network stack, that implements ICN forwarding path in IPv6, and a transport stack that implements two main transport protocols and a socket API. The transport protocols provide one reliable transport service implementation and a real-time transport service for audio/video media.

Directory layout

Directory name	Description
lib	Core support library
hicn-plugin	VPP plugin
hicn-light	Lightweight packet forwarder
libtransport	Support library with transport layer and API
utils	Tools for testing
apps	Application examples using hicn stack
ctrl	Tools and libraries for network configuration and control

hicn plugin is a VPP plugin that implement hicn packet processing as specified in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-muscariello-intarea-hicn/. The transport library is used to implement the hicn host stack and makes use of libmemif as high performance connector between transport and the network stack. The transport library makes use of VPP binary API to configure the local namespace (local face management).

Supported platforms

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (amd64)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (amd64, arm64)
CentOS 7 (x86_64)
Android 10
iOS 13
macOS 10.15
Windows 10

Binaries

Release note

The current master branch provides the latest release which is compatible with the latest VPP stable. No other VPP releases are supported nor maintained. At every new VPP release distribution hicn master branch is updated to work with the latest stable release. All previous stable releases are discontinued and not maintained. The user who is interested in a specific release can always checkout the right code tree by searching the latest commit under a given git tag carrying the release version.