Tools for Analytical and Simulation Investigation of Named Data Networking

Named Data Networking is a consumer-driven network architecture that supports content consumer mobility due to the nature of in-network catching. The architecture is proposed to supplement and replace current Internet architecture by using named content in place of IP-address. In this paper mobility problem is selected to presents and discussed about the tools necessary for problem investigation in NDN. Usually modeling, simulation and testbed methods are used for investigation of any problem in the field of networking. Analytical investigation and simulation tools are covered, and the investigation can be done using network analysis model with any technique such as hop count method for analytical investigation. While simulators such as ndnSIM, CCNLite, OMNET ++ and ccnSim can be used as tools for simulation.