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+Libtransport: data transport library for hICN
+====================================================
+
+## Introduction ##
+
+This library provides transport services and socket API for applications willing to communicate
+using the hICN protocol stack.
+
+Overview:
+
+- Implementation of the hICN core objects (interest, data, name..) exploiting the API provided by [libhicn](../lib).
+- Connectors for connecting the application to either the hicn-plugin or the hicn-light forwarder.
+- Transport protocols (RAAQM, CBR, RTP)
+- Transport services (authentication, integrity, segmentation, reassembly, naming)
+- Interfaces for Applications (from low-level interfaces for interest-data interaction to high level interfaces for Application Data Unit interaction)
+
+## Build Dependencies ##
+
+- libparc
+- libmemif (linux only, if compiling with VPP support)
+- libasio
+
+### Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 ###
+
+```bash
+ $ echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/fd.io.master.ubuntu.$(lsb_release -sc).main/ ./" \
+          | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/99fd.io.list
+ $ sudo apt-get install libparc libasio-dev
+```
+
+If you wish to use the library for connecting to the vpp hicn-plugin, you will need to also install vpp, the vpp libraries and the libmemif libraries:
+
+- DEB packages:
+  - vpp
+  - vpp-lib
+  - vpp-dev
+
+You can get them either from from the vpp packages ot the source code. Check the [VPP wiki](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP) for instructions.
+
+Libmemif is in the vpp-lib and vpp-dev packages.
+
+### Mac OSX ###
+
+We recommend to use [HomeBrew](https://brew.sh/) for installing the libasio dependency:
+
+```bash
+ $ brew install asio
+```
+
+Download, compile and install libparc:
+
+```bash
+ $ git clone -b cframework/master https://gerrit.fd.io/r/cicn cframework && cd cframework
+ $ mkdir -p libparc.build && cd libparc.build
+ $ cmake ../libparc
+ $ make
+ $ make install
+```
+
+Libparc will be installed by default under `/usr/local/lib` and `/usr/local/include`.
+
+Since VPP does not support MAC OS, the hicn-plugin connector is not built.
+
+## Build The library ##
+
+From the project root folder:
+
+```bash
+ $ cd libtransport
+ $ mkdir build && cd build
+ $ cmake ..
+ $ make
+```
+### Compile options ###
+
+The build process can be customized with the following options:
+
+- `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX`: The path where you want to install the library.
+- `CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE`: The build configuration. Options: `Release`, `Debug`. Default is `Release`.
+- `ASIO_HOME`: The folder containing the libasio headers.
+- `LIBPARC_HOME`: The folder containing the libparc headers and libraries.
+- `VPP_HOME`: The folder containing the installation of VPP.
+- `LIBMEMIF_HOME`: The folder containing the libmemif headers and libraries.
+- `BUILD_MEMIF_CONNECTOR`: On linux, set this value to `ON` for building the VPP connector.
+
+An option can be set using cmake -D`OPTION`=`VALUE`.
+
+Install the library
+-------------------
+
+For installing the library, from the cmake build folder:
+
+```bash
+ $ sudo make install
+```
+
+## Supported platforms
+
+- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (x86_64)
+- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (x86_64)
+- Debian Stable/Testing
+- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
+- CentOS 7
+- Android 8
+- iOS 12
+- macOS 10.12
+- Windows 10
+
+## License ##
+
+This software is distributed under the following license:
+
+```
+Copyright (c) 2017-2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+```
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