Libraries / NDN Platform

NDN codebase is constantly evolving. Some software packages are actively maintained and some are no longer updated and may not work with the latest libraries.
The most recent “bleeding edge” versions can always be found on ourgithub site. Please refer tomailing lists for support, and feel free to submit bugs and feature requests onour Redmine page.

Actively maintained:

Core software

• NFD: Forwarding Daemon
• NDNd: Named Data Networking Daemon
• ndn-cxx: C++ library
• NDN Essential Tools
• NLSR: Link-state routing protocol
• Mini-NDN
• ndnSIM: NDN simulator
• NDN-Lite (NDN IoT Framework)
• NDN-DPDK: High-Speed Named Data Networking Forwarder

Libraries

• ndn-cxx: C++ library
• jNDN (Java NDN library)
• python-ndn (Python NDN library)
• NDNts (NDN library for Web)
• NAC: Named-Based Access Control Library for NDN
• Sync libraries
  • PSync
  • StateVectorSync
  • ChronoSync (deprecated, not recommended for use)

Tools Applications

• NDN Essential Tools
• NDN Python Repo: Repo implementation using python-ndn
• repo-ng: Legacy implementation of NDN repository (soon to be replaced with NDN python repo)
• NDN Traffic Generator

Mobile Software

• NDN Android
• npChat (app)
• NDN Whiteboard (app)

Legacy (archived) software

Note that software in the following list is no longer maintained and most likely doesn’t work with the latest libraries.

Libraries

• NDN-CCL: Common Client Libraries (except jNDN library, which is actively supported)
• ndnrtc: Real Time Conferencing
• Consumer/Producer API

Tools and Applications

• NDNFS: NDN-Friendly File System
• ChronoChat