NDN Packet Format Specification 0.3 documentation

Note that this is the version of NDN packet specification in progress. Not all changes are finalized and supported by the existing NDN codebase

NDN Packet Format SpecificationΒΆ

  • Introduction
  • Type-Length-Value (TLV) Encoding
    • Variable Size Encoding for type (T) and length (L)
    • TLV Encoding
    • Non Negative Integer Encoding
    • Considerations for Evolvability of TLV-Based Encoding
  • Name
    • NDN Name Format
    • NDN URI Scheme
    • Implicit Digest Component
    • Parameters Digest Component
    • Canonical Order
  • Interest Packet
    • Name
    • CanBePrefix
    • MustBeFresh
    • ForwardingHint
    • Nonce
    • InterestLifetime
    • HopLimit
    • ApplicationParameters
  • Data Packet
    • Name
    • MetaInfo
      • ContentType
      • FreshnessPeriod
      • FinalBlockId
    • Content
  • Signature
    • Data Signature
    • Interest Signature
    • Signature Elements
      • SignatureType
      • KeyLocator
      • SignatureNonce
      • SignatureTime
      • SignatureSeqNum
      • Different Types of Signature
  • Link Object
  • Signed Interest
    • Construction of Signed Interest
    • Signed Interest processing
  • TLV-TYPE number assignments
    • TLV-TYPE number reservations
  • Changes
    • Version 0.3
    • Version 0.2.1
    • Version 0.2
    • Version 0.1.1
    • Version 0.1

Table Of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Type-Length-Value (TLV) Encoding
  • Name
  • Interest Packet
  • Data Packet
  • Signature
  • Link Object
  • Signed Interest
  • TLV-TYPE number assignments
  • Changes

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This research is partially supported by NSF (Award CNS-1040868)

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