From 1b9512282a5324b2bd2b28b8e5555e15676cb54c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Muscariello Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:08:15 +0100 Subject: [HICN-531] update documentation with fixes and new content Change-Id: I4d75f559875fbaae3a63ed20835461b3d18691fb Signed-off-by: Luca Muscariello --- docs/source/index.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/source/index.rst') diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst index 17aeb3a1c..99ea39afa 100644 --- a/docs/source/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/index.rst @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ 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. + .. toctree:: started -- cgit 1.2.3-korg