Design and Implementation of Low-Cost and Highly Customable Named Data Networking(NDN) Testbed

Nowadays, named data networking information centric networking (ICN) architecture has attracted many researchers to study it as one of future internet architecture candidates. One of the facilities to study new networking technology is a testbed. It functions as a platform to run various component functionalities, topologies, and communication schema in a lab-scale environment designed as close to the actual operational environment. However, there are just a few research topics about NDN testbed that have been published. Also, there was no experiment-related testbed resource utilization and more extensive topology used in the research conducted. On the other hand, there is no development already taken for easy testbed management based on GUI. This paper proposed a low-cost and highly customizable NDN testbed based on Linux VM. The experiments conducted in the research were testbed functionality, testbed resource utilization measurement, and topology customization through the GUI. Based on the implementation and test shown, all functionalities needed for running NDN testbed were already fulfilled. The testbed that was highly customizable, low-cost, easy-to-use has succeeded to build and has better functionality than the previously created testbed.