Research Article
Pedestrian Crossing: The Long and Winding Road toward Fair Cross-comparison of ICN Quality
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.qshine.2014.256305, author={Michele Tortelli and Dario Rossi and Gennaro Boggia and Luigi Alfredo Grieco}, title={Pedestrian Crossing: The Long and Winding Road toward Fair Cross-comparison of ICN Quality}, proceedings={10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2014}, month={9}, keywords={icn software tools cross-comparison simulation quality}, doi={10.4108/icst.qshine.2014.256305} }- Michele Tortelli
Dario Rossi
Gennaro Boggia
Luigi Alfredo Grieco
Year: 2014
Pedestrian Crossing: The Long and Winding Road toward Fair Cross-comparison of ICN Quality
QSHINE
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.qshine.2014.256305
Abstract
While numerous Information Centric Networking (ICN) architectures have been proposed over the last years, the community has so far only timidly attempted at a quantitative assessment of the relative quality of service level that users are expected to enjoy in each of them. This paper starts a journey toward the cross comparison of ICN alternatives, making several contributions along this road. Specifically, a census of 20 ICN software tools reveals that about 10 are dedicated to a specific architecture, about half of which are simulators. Second, we survey ICN research papers using simulation to gather information concerning the used simulator, finding that a large fraction either uses custom proprietary and unavailable software, or even plainly fails to mention any information on this regard, which is deceiving. Third, we cross-compare some of the available simulators, finding that they achieve consistent results, which is instead encouraging. Fourth, we propose a methodology to increase and promote crosscomparison, which is within reach but requires community-wide agreement, promotion and enforcement.
