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Hybrid Information-Centric Networking
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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
   lib
   vpp-plugin
   transport
   hicn-light
   interface
   control
   telemetry
   utils
   apps