Publications

Publications: 35 ( Journal articles : 20, Conference papers : 15 )
Cites: 287 ( according to Google Scholar, Updated 19.06.2020)

2019

Enabling ICN in the Internet Protocol: Analysis and Evaluation of the Hybrid-ICN Architecture

Abstract

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) embraces a family of network architectures rethinking Internet communication principles around named-data. After several years of research and the emergence of a few popular proposals, the idea to replace the Internet protocol with data-centric networking remains a subject of debate. ICN advantages have been advocated in the context of 5G networks for the support of highly mobile, multi-access/source and latencyminimal patterns of communications. However, large scale testing and insertion in operational networks are yet to happen, likely due to the lack of a clear incremental deployment strategy. In this paper, we analyze a recent proposal Hybrid-ICN (hICN), an ICN integration inside IP (rather that over/ under/ in place of) that has the ambition to trade-off no ICN architectural principles. By reusing existing packet formats, hICN brings innovation inside the IP stack, requiring minimal software upgrades and guaranteeing transparent interconnection with existing IP networks. We describe the architecture and use the open source implementation to test hICN in the open Internet to validate its short-term deployability. Further, we consider linear video streaming over mobile wireless heterogeneous networks as use case to highlight hICN advantages compared to TCP/IP counterpart.

Cites: 3 (see at Google Scholar)

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Application-specific policy-driven 5G Transport with Hybrid ICN

Abstract

The future landscape of a heterogeneous and unified access (WiFi and Cellular), where users and applications interact with heterogeneous multi-cloud networks, with many different services collaborating together, poses significant challenges to ISP, Enterprises, Cloud Providers and the applications themselves, in particular in terms of Policies, Security and QoE. In this demonstration we showcase the potential of Hybrid ICN (hICN) in the context of enforcing inter-domain policies: exploiting the connection-less, app-aware, multipoint transport of hICN we are able to manage policies on a per-application basis, combining multiple objectives of different players (ISP, Enterprise, Users) in a dynamic and seamless manner.

Cites: 2 (see at Google Scholar)

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A Network Protocol for Distributed Orchestration Using Intent-Based Forwarding

Abstract

Network management systems have undergone tremendous changes to adapt to the growing complexity and diversity of network deployments. A new trend of intent-based frameworks has emerged, where network administrators only input an abstract view of their desired network model instead of specifying the necessary steps to attain it. Intent-based networking holds the promise of autonomous, agile, and learning networks that configure themselves according to abstract policy without requiring human intervention. In this demonstration, we introduce a novel architecture for distributed intent-based network orchestration. For this purpose, we first extend the standard YANG to carry intent rather than configuration, adding missing features for in-network orchestration. Second, we use the model intents as network-native objects on which to perform routing and forwarding in-between orchestrators. Finally, we highlight the benefits of pushing intent in the network rather than fully processing it in a centralized orchestrator and illustrate potential improvements in term of scalability, programmability, and reliability.

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2018

MAP-Me: Managing Anchor-less Producer Mobility in Content-Centric Networks

Abstract

Mobility has become a basic premise of network communications, thereby requiring a native integration into 5G networks. Despite numerous efforts to propose and standardize effective mobility-management models for IP, the result is a complex, poorly flexible set of mechanisms. The natural support for mobility offered by ICN (Information Centric Networking) makes it a good candidate to define a radically new solution relieving limitations of the traditional approaches. If consumer mobility is supported in ICN by design, in virtue of its connectionless pull-based communication model, producer mobility is still an open challenge. In this work, we look at two prominent ICN architecture, CCN (Content Centric Networking) and NDN (Named Data Networking) and we propose MAP-Me, an anchor-less solution to manage micro-mobility of content producers via a name- based CCN/NDN data plane, with support for latency-sensitive streaming applications. We analyze MAP-Me performance and provide guarantees of correctness, stability, and bounded stretch, which we verify on real ISP topologies. Finally, we set up a comprehensive simulation environment in NDNSim 2.1 for MAP-Me evaluation and comparison with different classes of solution. We cover a wide range of topologies, mobility models and radio conditions, and conclude with a realistic trace-driven car-mobility pattern under a 802.11n radio access. The results are encouraging and highlight MAP-Me characteristics and efficiency in terms of user performance and network cost metrics. All the code is available as open-source.

Cites: 20 (see at Google Scholar)

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2017

Simple and efficient ICN network virtualization with vICN

Abstract

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has been proposed as an alternative to IP for future networks such as 5G. To speed up its development and adoption, researchers and engineers require testing tools that are both simple and scalable. In particular, it is crucial to be able to quickly deploy ICN-enabled network topologies in a flexible and efficient manner. In this demonstration, we showcase vICN (virtualized ICN), a platform that enables easy deployment, orchestration and management of ICN networks. vICN uses standard virtualization technologies such as Linux Containers (LXC) and is fully integrated with the CICN suite to enable flexible testing of ICN technologies on general-purpose hardware. Furthermore, it can perform live monitoring and modification of the network. In particular, we use vICN to deploy a simple topology that consists of 9 nodes. We show that vICN bootstraps the topology in about 60s on commodity hardware. We then demonstrate how vICN interacts with the virtualized network and how it can be used for easy experimentation.

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Secure producer mobility in information-centric network

Abstract

One of the fundamental requirements of next generation 5G networks is the support for seamless mobility over an heterogeneous access network by design. The shift from host-based to content-based location-independent communication makes Information-Centric Networking (ICN) an appealing technology to provide not only mobility, but security and storage as native properties of the network architecture. Previous work in ICN literature has focused on name-based mobility management solutions and particularly on the challenges of producer mobility, which involves an interaction between forwarding and control plane. In this paper, we consider the security implications of producer mobility in ICN and highlight the importance of securing producer to network interactions to avoid any sort of cyber attack potentially leading to denial of service. To this aim, we propose a fully distributed and very low-overhead protocol for name prefix attestation in the network based on hash-chaining. First results show a significant improvement in verification latency of order of magnitudes with respect to signature verification.

Cites: 17 (see at Google Scholar)

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Enhancing Mobile Video Delivery over an Heterogeneous Network Access with Information-Centric Networking

Abstract

Mobile video delivery drives Internet traffic evolution and puts colossal pressure on future 5G networks to support higher quality and lower latency requirements over an increasingly heterogeneous network access. Future Internet paradigms recentering communication around content, such as Information Centric Networks (ICN), appear as promising candidates to relieve the challenges of a mobility-robust, efficient and cost-effective video delivery, by integrating video-awareness at network layer. In this demo, we focus on ICN-enabled Dynamic Adaptive Streaming (DAS) over an heterogeneous wireless access. We integrate ICN capabilities in DAS clients requesting 4K video content to standard DAS servers. We deploy a virtualized ICN-enabled network slice using LXC containers to connect clients to servers through an heterogeneous wireless access (802.11n and LTE emulated radios) and a simplified backhaul. The contribution of the demo is twofold. First it showcases what ICN can bring to DAS over a mobile heterogeneous access in virtue of its content-awareness at network layer. Second, it offers to the user a rich sandbox where several state-of-the-art DAS controllers are implemented and can be tested over ICN or standard TCP.

Cites: 3 (see at Google Scholar)

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Virtualized ICN (vICN): towards a unified network virtualization framework for ICN experimentation

Abstract

To assess the feasibility and potential for deployment of new networking paradigms such as ICN, being able to carry out large scale experimentation and tests in real operational networks is crucial. Various platforms have been developed by the research community to support design and evaluation of specific aspects of ICN architecture. Most of them provide ICN-dedicated, small scale or application-specific environments and ad-hoc testing tools, non reusable in other contexts nor in real-world IP deployments. The goal of this paper is to contribute vICN (virtualized ICN), a unified open-source framework for network configuration and management that uses recent progresses in resource isolation and virtualization techniques. It offers a single, flexible and scalable platform to serve different purposes, ranging from reproducible large-scale research experimentation, to demonstrations with emulated and/or physical devices and network resources and to real deployments of ICN in existing IP networks. In the paper, we describe the rationale for vICN and its components, highlighting programmability, scalability and reliability as its core principles. Illustration of vICN properties is provided through concrete examples.

Cites: 22 (see at Google Scholar)

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2016

MAP-Me: Managing Anchor-less Producer Mobility in Information-Centric Networks

Cites: 12 (see at Google Scholar)

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Latency-Based Anycast Geolocalization: Algorithms, Software and Datasets

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journal

2015

Anchor-Less Producer Mobility in ICN

Cites: 39 (see at Google Scholar)

Characterizing IPv4 Anycast Adoption and Deployment

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conference

Awards: IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize @ IETF-96 (2016)

Cites: 32 (see at Google Scholar)

Lightweight Anycast Enumeration and Geolocation

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conference

Errors Announcing 32-bit ASNs in BGP Routes

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conference,poster

A Fistful of Pings: Accurate and Lightweight Anycast Enumeration and Geolocation

Keywords

conference

Cites: 27 (see at Google Scholar)

2014

Federating data to support measurement and monitoring

Keywords

invited talk

Distributed Active Measurement of Internet Queuing Delays

Keywords

conference,poster

Cites: 5 (see at Google Scholar)

Violation of Interdomain Routing Assumptions

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conference

Cites: 15 (see at Google Scholar)

Tools to foster a global federation of testbeds

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journal

Cites: 19 (see at Google Scholar)

2013

Some thoughts towards an intercontinental federation

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invitedtalk

Can we define a standard interface for the measurement and monitoring plane ?

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invitedtalk

Some development about the Future Internet in Europe

Keywords

invitedtalk

On multi-exit routings and AS relationships

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workshop

2012

Towards an integrated portal for networking testbed federation, an open platform approach

Keywords

workshop

Cites: 8 (see at Google Scholar)

Supporting the experiment lifecycle with MySlice

Keywords

invitedtalk

Cites: 2 (see at Google Scholar)

2011

Measurement-Based Admission Control for Flow-Aware Implicit Service Differentiation

Abstract

It has previously been shown that the combined use of fair queuing and admission control would allow the Internet to provide satisfactory quality of service for both streaming and elastic flows without explicitly identifying traffic classes. In this paper we discuss the design of the required measurement based admission control (MBAC) scheme. The context is different to that of previous work on MBAC in that there is no prior knowledge of flow characteristics and there is a twofold objective: to maintain adequate throughput for elastic flows and to ensure low packet latency for any flow whose peak rate is less than a given threshold. In the paper we consider the second objective assuming realistically that most elastic and streaming flows are rate limited. We propose an MBAC algorithm and evaluate its performance by simulation under different stationary traffic mixes and in a flash crowd scenario. The algorithm is shown to offer a satisfactory compromise between flow performance and link utilization.

Keywords

conference,phd,Admission control,Flow-Aware Networking

Cites: 4 (see at Google Scholar)

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2010

Update on TopHat \& measurement system interconnection

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workshop

TopHat: supporting experiments through measurement infrastructure federation

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conference

Cites: 34 (see at Google Scholar)

Overview of TopHat: Interconnecting the OneLab measurement infrastructures

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workshop

2009

The 2nd Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS-2) report

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workshop

Challenges in the capture and dissemination of measurements from high-speed networks

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journal

Cites: 11 (see at Google Scholar)

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2007

A Statistical Bandwidth Sharing Perspective on Buffer Sizing.

Keywords

conference,phd

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2006

Buffer sizing for elastic traffic

Keywords

conference,phd

Cites: 12 (see at Google Scholar)

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2005

Fair Queueing and Congestion Control

Keywords

workshop,phd

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Performance of TCP over a link using Fair Queueing

Keywords

workshop,phd

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IETF drafts

  • MAP-Me : Managing Anchorless Mobility in Content Centric Networking
    Jordan Augé, Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Michele Papalini
    draft-irtf-icnrg-mapme-00, IRTF, ICNRG, 2018

Patents

  • Low-Overhead Anchorless Managing of Producer Mobility in Information-Centric Networking
    Giovanna Carofiglio, Jordan Augé, Pascal Thubert - Cisco Technology Inc.
    US20170034041A1 - Priority 2015-07-30 • Filing 2016-03-03 • Publication 2017-02-02
  • System and method to facilitate integration of information-centric networking into internet protocol networks
    Luca MUSCARIELLO, Giovanna Carofiglio, Jordan Augé - Cisco Technology Inc.
    US20180103128A1 - Filing 2017-07-25 • Publication 2018-04-12

Posters

  • Evaluation d'une proposition de gestion de trafic au niveau flot,
    Jordan Augé,
    Forum CIFRE, CNIT La Défense, Paris, 21 Mars 2006
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  • MASTS: Measurements at All Scales in Time and Space,
    Jordan Augé, Richard Clayton, Andrew W. Moore
    University of Cambridge, 2008
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Technical reports

  • Maquette de démonstration Cross-Protect (in french),
    Jordan Augé, Nabil Benameur, Abdesselem Kortebi, Sara Oueslati, James Roberts,
    Internal report, April 2005.
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Selected presentations

  • Some development about the Future Internet in Europe,
    Serge Fdida, Jordan Augé, Marc-Olivier Buob, Loïc Baron, Timur Friedman, CFI'2013, The 8th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies, June 5-7, 2013, Beijing, China PDF
  • Supporting the experiment lifecycle with MySlice,
    Jordan Augé, Loïc Baron, Timur Friedman, Serge Fdida,
    GENI Engineering Conference, GEC15 - Oct. 23-25, 2012 - Houston, TX
    PDF
  • A statistical bandwidth sharing perspective at buffer sizing,
    Jordan Augé, James Roberts,
    LIP6 seminars, December 4th, 2008.
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  • A brief introduction to Flow-Aware Networking,
    Jordan Augé (inspired from collective work in the France Telecom team),
    NETOS talklets, April 22nd, 2008.
    PDF LaTeX source EPS files

Awards