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ashu4c858802015-04-15 11:28:07 -05004### What is Mini-NDN?
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Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -05006Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables testing, experimentation, and
Vince Lehman4e7df5a2015-07-21 11:55:49 -05007research on the NDN platform. Based on [Mini-CCNx](https://github.com/chesteve/mn-ccnx) which
8is a fork of [Mininet](https://github.com/mininet/mininet), Mini-NDN uses the NDN libraries,
9NFD, NLSR, and tools released by the [NDN project](http://named-data.net/codebase/platform/)
10to emulate an NDN network on a single system.
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Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -050012Mini-NDN is open and free software licensed under the GPL 3.0 license. Mini-NDN is free to all
13users and developers. For more information about licensing details and limitations,
14please refer to [COPYING.md](COPYING.md).
carlosmscabrale3c810e2013-02-25 18:15:40 -030015
Vince Lehman4e7df5a2015-07-21 11:55:49 -050016The first release of Mini-NDN is developed by members of the NSF-sponsored NDN project team.
17Mini-NDN is open to contribution from the public.
18For more details, please refer to [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md).
Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -050019Bug reports and feedback are highly appreciated and can be made through our
Vince Lehman4e7df5a2015-07-21 11:55:49 -050020[Redmine site](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn) and the
21[mini-ndn mailing list](http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/mini-ndn).
carlosmscabrale3c810e2013-02-25 18:15:40 -030022
23### Documentation
24
Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -050025* [Installation](INSTALL.md)
26* [Getting Started](docs/GETTING-STARTED.md)
27* [Mini-NDN Edit](docs/GUI.md)
28* [Running Experiments](docs/EXPERIMENTS.md)
29* [Mini-NDN Redmine](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn)