Roadmap

This Page describes the upcomming development and things TODO.

TODO

• Automatic Build and functionality testing must be "recreated" (sth like Travis)

  • Build test, call cmake (DONE, see semaphoreci)

  • Unit tests (see PROJECTS)

  • Simple packet transmission and forwarding test over two nodes

  • Simple NFN test?

• For IoT Scenarios, use of malloc should be reduced (see PROJECTS).

  • Replace with static memory, allocated outside (before function call) and hand over pointers.

• Code for MGMT must be updated (see PROJECTS)

  • Either remove NDNTLV code or change entire MGMT to NDNTLV

• Check for corner cases:

  • Test with broken packets (maybe Fuzzing)

  • Search for possible bufferoverruns

• Remove all remaining global variables

• Introduce style guide and naming conventions (SEE PROJECTS)

• Replace magic numbers with constants (see PROJECTS)

• Reduce number of ambiguous return codes, i.e. there are functions which just return 0 for basically everything (see PROJECTS)

• Replace unsafe function calls, e.g. strcpy vs. strncpy (see PROJECTS)

Wish List

• Replace duplicate code where applicable, e.g. ccnl_iottlv_varlenint vs. ccnl_ndntlv_varlenint
• Make use of uint{8,16,32}_t and int{8,16,32}_t where applicable over general use of int
• Introduce sizeof(int32_t) (or the desired size) for memcpy calls over, e.g. a plain memcpy(destination, source, 4);, make use of size_t

Wish List Features

• Extend NDN Support
  • Provide support for "Strategy Choice Table" (basically a mapping of different forwarders for different namespaces)

Done

• Freeze NFN-scala and release a last NFN-enabled CCN-lite version.
  • Remove NFN code from CCN-lite. This would reduce complexity and enhance usability for the core users.
  • This way we can get rid of a lot of IFDEFs
  • NFN will be continued in PiCN using new Syntax and single executable.