Basically, you'll need a laptop/desktop with a recent Linux distro (Ubuntu, Fedora). We recommend Ubuntu. For this guide, the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was used. Also, note that you'll need administrative privileges in order to download and install extra packages and also to execute Mini-NDN.
Each node in Mini-NDN will run the official implementation of NDN. The following dependencies are needed:
Mini-NDN uses NFD, NLSR, and ndn-tlv-ping.
To install NFD: http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/INSTALL.html
To install NLSR: http://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/current/INSTALL.html
To install ndn-tools: https://github.com/named-data/ndn-tools
Mini-NDN is based on Mininet. To install Mininet: https://github.com/mininet/mininet/INSTALL
If you have all the dependencies installed simply clone this repository and run:
sudo ./install.sh -i
else if you don't have the dependencies:
sudo ./install.sh -mrfti
Once everything is installed, the following command can be issued for verification
sudo minindn --pingall 50 --ctime 180 ndn_utils/hyperbolic_conf_file/minindn.caida.conf
All the ping logs will be stored under /tmp/node-name/ping-data and the command will provide a command line interface at the end.
When the "mininet>" CLI prompt appears, press CTRL+D to terminate the experiment. Then, execute ls /tmp/*/ping-data/*.txt | wc -l, and expect to see "90". Execute cat /tmp/*/ping-data/*.txt | grep loss, and expect to see "0% packet loss" on every line.