A Dataflow-Oriented Programming Interface for Named Data Networking  

作　　者：Li-Jing Wang Yong-Qiang Lv Ilya Moiseenko Dong-Sheng Wang 

机构地区：[1]Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2]Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [3]Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A.

出　　处：《Journal of Computer Science & Technology》2018年第1期158-168,共11页计算机科学技术学报（英文版）

基　　金：This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61373025.

摘　　要：Inheriting from a data-driven communication pattern other than a location-driven pattern, named data net- working （NDN） offers better support to network-layer dataflow. However, the application developers have to handle complex tasks, such as data segmentation, packet verification, and flow control, due to the lack of proper transport-layer protocols over the network layer. In this study, we design a dataflow-oriented programming interface to provide transport strategies for NDN, which greatly improves the efficiency in developing applications. This interface presents two application data unit; （ADU） retrieval strategies according to different data publishing patterns, in which it adopts an adaptive ADU pipelining algorithm to control the dataflow based on the current network status and data generation rate. The interface also offers network measurement strategies to monitor an abundance of critical metrics infuencing the application performance. We verify the functionality and performance of our interface by implementing a video streaming application spanning 11 time zones over the worldwide NDN testbed. Our experiments show that the interface can efficiently support developing high-performance and dataflow-driven NDN applications.Inheriting from a data-driven communication pattern other than a location-driven pattern, named data net- working （NDN） offers better support to network-layer dataflow. However, the application developers have to handle complex tasks, such as data segmentation, packet verification, and flow control, due to the lack of proper transport-layer protocols over the network layer. In this study, we design a dataflow-oriented programming interface to provide transport strategies for NDN, which greatly improves the efficiency in developing applications. This interface presents two application data unit; （ADU） retrieval strategies according to different data publishing patterns, in which it adopts an adaptive ADU pipelining algorithm to control the dataflow based on the current network status and data generation rate. The interface also offers network measurement strategies to monitor an abundance of critical metrics infuencing the application performance. We verify the functionality and performance of our interface by implementing a video streaming application spanning 11 time zones over the worldwide NDN testbed. Our experiments show that the interface can efficiently support developing high-performance and dataflow-driven NDN applications.

关 键 词：named data networking （NDN） DATAFLOW network architecture and design transport-layer protocol 

分 类 号：TP311.13[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论] TP393[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]