This 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 reliable and unrelieable transport with congestion control and loss management by ARQ or FEC. It supports applications such as reliable multicast for ABR video, real-time video conferencing and on-line multiplayer games. The client stack has been tested on iOS and Android over Wi-Fi, LTE and Ethernet including multi-homing use cases.
| Directory name | Description |
|---|---|
| lib | Core support library |
| hicn-plugin | VPP plugin |
| hicn-light | Lightweight packet forwarder |
| libtransport | Support library with transport layer and API |
| apps | Application examples using hicn stack and tools |
| 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).
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (amd64, arm64)
- Android 10+
- iOS 13+
- macOS 10.15+
- Windows 10+
https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release
https://hub.docker.com/u/icnteam
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.
