Device-to-Device Communication with Named Data Networking

Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture uses data-centric communication primitives that naturally support direct device-to-device (D2D) communications. To make NDN-enabled D2D communication a reality, this poster aims at two goals. First, we report our recent progress in enabling NDN connectivity over a number of popular D2D networking technologies. Second, we share with the broader community the roadblocks that we discovered in the process. Our experience suggests that launching a new network protocol stack for D2D communication on common platforms can be a daunting engineering challenge because of the lack of standard cross-platform APIs, limited documentation, and general platform restrictions to use L2 interfaces directly. Moreover, platforms are often equipped with different D2D networking technologies, forcing one to use many different means to interconnect different types of systems.