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diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst index 99ea39afa..c41df95ca 100644 --- a/docs/source/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/index.rst @@ -1,27 +1,76 @@ Hybrid Information-Centric Networking ===================================== -Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (hICN) is a network architecture that makes -use of IPv6 or IPv4 to realize location-independent communications. It is largely -inspired by the pioneer work of Van Jacobson on Content-Centric Networking, that was -a clean-slate architecture whereas hICN is based on the Internet protocol and easy to -deploy in today networks and applications. hICN brings many-to-many communications, -multi-homing, multi-path, multi-source, group communications to the Internet protocol -without replicated unicast. The project implements novel transport protocols, with a socket API, -for real-time and capacity seeking applications. A scalable stack is available based -on VPP and a client stack is provided to support any mobile and desktop operating system. +Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (hICN) is a network architecture that +makes use of IPv6 or IPv4 to implement location-independent communications. It +is largely inspired by the pioneer work of Van Jacobson on Content-Centric +Networking (RFC 8569, RFC 8609) that is a clean-slate architecture. hICN is +based on the Internet protocol and easyier to deploy in today networks and +applications. hICN brings many-to-many communications, multi-homing, multi-path, +multi-source, group communications to the Internet protocol. The current code +implements also transport protocols, with a socket API, for real-time and +capacity seeking applications. A scalable stack is available based on VPP and a +client stack is provided to support mobile and desktop operating systems. + +A detailed description of the architecture is described in the paper + +Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Jordan Augé, Michele Papalini, Mauro +Sardara, and Alberto Compagno. 2019. Enabling ICN in the Internet Protocol: +Analysis and Evaluation of the Hybrid-ICN Architecture. In Proceedings of the +6th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN '19). +Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 55–66. DOI: +https://doi.org/10.1145/3357150.3357394 + +The project wiki page is full of resources https://wiki.fd.io/view/HICN + +.. toctree:: + :caption: Architecture + + 1-architecture + .. toctree:: + :caption: Getting started + :maxdepth: 1 started + +.. toctree:: + :caption: Core library + :maxdepth: 1 + lib + +.. toctree:: + :caption: The VPP Plugin + :maxdepth: 1 + vpp-plugin + +.. toctree:: + :caption: The Transport Library + :maxdepth: 1 + transport + +.. toctree:: + :caption: The Portable Forwarder + :maxdepth: 1 + hicn-light + +.. toctree:: + :caption: Network Control and Management + :maxdepth: 1 + interface control telemetry - utils - apps +.. toctree:: + :caption: Applications and Tools + :maxdepth: 1 + utils + apps + packethicn
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