Implementation and evaluation of an information-centric network

Information-centric networking (ICN) has been touted as an alternative to the current Internet architecture by several research groups. So far little has been done towards the implementation of ICN network stacks and their evaluation in realistic ICN deployments. In this paper we describe Blackadder, a sophisticated prototype of our ICN architecture, and we present an extended experimental evaluation in high-performance and wide-area testbeds. Our evaluation shows the feasibility of the design and the performance of our prototype in test bed setups. In addition, we contrast our implementation against CCNx.