leimig / daedalus

An ICN Cache Simulator

Daedalus

Daedalus is an ICN Cache Simulator.

Daedalus has two basic building blocks. The first block is network::node::network_node class. It simulates the workings of a network node that implements the ICN protocols. This node is monitored and used to collect the results of the simulation. The second block is network::network_simulator which works as a proxy of the entire network for the node being tested. The entire simulation is coordinated through this proxy.

How to build

Daedalus does not depends on any external library, the only library it uses is already available at lib/.

In order to build daedalus, you need to execute the following command

make

then copy the executable generated at bin/ called daedalus.

Policies

There are a limited number of available policies, however, it should be easy to implement your own.

Available Policies

• NO_CACHE
• FIFO
• LIFO
• LRU
• LFU
• CLIMB
• LCC

How to create a new Policy

Creating a new Policy should be easy enough.

• Create the *.hpp and *.cpp files that contains the implementation of your Policy at src/network/node/cache. Use the existing ones as base.
• Modify policy.cpp to instantiate your new policy when its id is used.
• Contribute it back.

Help

OVERVIEW: Daedalus is an Information Centric Network simulator.

USAGE: daedalus [options]

OPTIONS:
-of <arg>   Output file.
-p  <arg>   Policy name.
-cs <arg>   Cache size. How many packets can be stored by the Content Store.
-ts <arg>   Number of nodes in the network three under the target node.
-np <arg>   Number of unique packets.
-rs <arg>   Round duration. How many packets represent a round.
-ws <arg>   Number of packets used during warm up.
-za <arg>   Zipf's Alpha. Alpha parameter in Zipf distribution.
-rc <arg>   Round counts. How many rounds should be executed.

LOGGING OPTIONS:
--v=<arg>   Verbosity Level. Default: 0. Possible options: 0 (GENERAL), 1 (INFO), 2 (WARNING), 9 (DEBUG)

Author

Daedalus is a project by Higgor Leimig.

License

This project is under the MIT license and can be use in commercial or personal projects without restrictions. Just consider contributing your improvements back.

References

Network Named Content

\@inproceedings{NetworkingNamedContent,
    title={Networking named content},
    author={Jacobson, Van and Smetters, Diana K and Thornton, James D and Plass, Michael F and Briggs, Nicholas H and Braynard, Rebecca L},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies},
    pages={1--12},
    year={2009},
    organization={ACM}
}