NDN Hackathons

16th NDN Hackathon  Apr 19-20, 2025, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

  1. Excalidraw on Ownly
  2. ScapyNDN
  3. File Server & WebTransport in NDNd
  4. Migrating to CMake (and Conan)
  5. Standalone C++ Module for Interest-Based NDN Repo Insertion
  6. NDNd Improvements

16th NDN Hackathon  Mar 8-9, 2024, Gaithersburg, MD

  1. Integration of mmWave with NDN/CCN using NS3 apps
  2. Chat on NDN Workspace
  3. Workspace VSCode Plugin
  4. Web of Trust Model for NDN Workspace
  5. Dockerizing NDN
  6. SDN + NDN with mini-NDN
  7. NDN Traffic Trace: stateful analysis & replay
  8. Beastify NFD
  9. Dynamic Rule Inference for Automating NDN Certificate Chain Validation
  10. SVS Performance Optimizations

15th NDN Hackathon  Nov 18-19, 2023, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Hackathon projects:
  1. Improving NDN Workspace Application with OpenIDConnect
  2. NDN Workspace Development
  3. Testbed-in-a-box
  4. Define NDN Services in Extensible Markup Language
  5. Containerize all the things!

14th NDN Hackathon  March 4-5, 2023, Gaithersburg, MD

Hackathon projects:
  1. Pheonix: An attempt to use light-weight NDN on smartwatch
  2. NDN-DPDK support in python-ndn
  3. NDN 101

13th NDN Hackathon  March 25-27, 2022, Memphis, TN

Hackathon projects:
  1. Integrate Content Connectivity and Location-Aware Forwarding (CCLF) into NFD
  2. NDNSD: Service Publishing and Discovery in NDN
  3. Profiling YaNFD
  4. Python-ndn Validator
  5. Hydra Security Implementation

12th NDN Hackathon  October 22-24, 2021 (Virtual)

Hackathon projects:
  1. Implementing Mnemosyne, An Immutable Logger
  2. YaNFD UI
  3. Mini-NDN improvements

11th NDN Hackathon  May 21-23, 2021 (Virtual)

Hackathon projects:
  1. NDN-FCH: The Big Rewrite
  2. NDN Compute Simulator (ndnCSim)
  3. NDN Play
  4. Mini-NDN Improvements
  5. CertCoalesce: NDN Certificate Pools

10th NDN Hackathon  October 17-18, 2020 (Virtual)

Hackathon projects:
  1. Passive Name Visualizer
  2. Deploy NDNCERT v0.3 on Testbed
  3. YaNFD: Yet Another NDN Forwarder
  4. Combat Fake News with screenshot verification
  5. NFD Strategy Plugin System

9th NDN Hackathon  September 7-8, 2019, Gaithersberg, MD

Hackathon projects:
  1. NFD on OpenWrt Home Router
  2. Enhanced Testbed Monitoring and FCH Service
  3. NDN mailing List Search Tool
  4. Simulating Multicast Suppression Scheme
  5. Migrate multipath forwarding strategy to latest ndnSIM and integrate ns3 TrafficControlLayer
  6. NDNCERT-v2: Debug, Deploy, Dominate
  7. NFD-Android Enhancements
  8. NDN-Lite Over LoRa Network/li>
  9. Service discovery for IoT devices through PSync FullSync

8th NDN Hackathon  March 8-10, 2019, Los Angeles, CA

Hackathon projects:
  1. Enhance Testbed Status Page and NDN-FCH Service
  2. Four-Layer Improvement of esp8266ndn
  3. Implementing the new Signed Interest in ndn-lite
  4. NDN-Lite: Integrate Service Discovery and Access Control and Schematized Trust
  5. NFD-Android Enhancements
  6. Self-Learning for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
  7. PSync for Repos
  8. Fix Ndncatchunks Performance Issues
  9. Improve the Wireshark dissector for NDN
  10. Vector Sync for MANET

7th NDN Hackathon  October 20-21, 2018 (Virtual)

Hackathon projects:
  1. Interest Buffering
  2. Modernize ndn-js
  3. Why Fractalide
  4. Named Reddit
  5. 3D Visualization of NDN Traffic
  6. Refactor encoding and decoding in NDN-RIOT
  7. Mini-NDN documentation
  8. Self-learning Forwarding Strategy: NFD Implementation and Testing

6th NDN Hackathon  May 12-13, 2018, Miami, FL

Hackathon projects:
  1. NFD Management Thread
  2. Porting PSync C++ library to Java
  3. IoT security bootstrapping with NDN
  4. Implement State Vector Sync (SVS) and Apply It to Repo
  5. Make NDN Congestion Control work in ndnSIM
  6. A Basic Forwarding Strategy for Ad-hoc Networks in NFD

5th NDN Hackathon  December 16-17, 2017, Los Angeles, CA

Hackathon projects:
  1. Firefly: A globally scalable message bus with NDN at the edge
  2. Implementing Broadcast-based Self-learning Forwarding Strategy in NFD
  3. Demonstrating the Benefits of In-Network Congestion Detection
  4. NFD Measurements Table Manager
  5. NDN Snapchat
  6. NFD Content Store Management

4th NDN Hackathon  March 25-26, 2017, Memphis, TN

Hackathon projects:
  1. ndnSIM Mobile Simulation Package
  2. Mini-NDN Wi-Fi
  3. Initial Implementation of Interest Digest in NFD
  4. NDN Maps application
  5. Namespace synchronization with the Common Name Library
  6. Ethernet Unicast Face

3rd NDN Hackathon  November 4-5, 2016, Fort Collins, CO

Hackathon projects:
  1. SQL-based Repository
  2. NDN Stack for ESP8266 Microcontroller
  3. Ad-hoc NDN Relay with MicroForwarder
  4. HR Next Phase
  5. nlsrSIM
  6. Android NDN auto-configuration
  7. New Congestion Adaptation for ndncatchunks

2nd NDN Hackathon  March 20-21, 2016, San Diego, CA

Hackathon projects:
  1. Logging Facility in ndn-cxx
  2. Mini-NDN Real-time Interaction GUI
  3. Micro forwarder Firefox add-on
  4. OSX Binary Release with NFD Control Center
  5. NFD-android auto-configuration
  6. NDNFit-NFN integration
  7. NDN-RTC congestion control