10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Research Article

Pedestrian Crossing: The Long and Winding Road toward Fair Cross-comparison of ICN Quality

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  • @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
Michele Tortelli1,*, Dario Rossi2, Gennaro Boggia1, Luigi Alfredo Grieco1
  • 1: Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 2: Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France
*Contact email: michele.tortelli@poliba.it

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.