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ashu4c858802015-04-15 11:28:07 -05001Mini-NDN
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carlosmscabrale3c810e2013-02-25 18:15:40 -03003
Nick Gordon22642a32017-12-21 14:05:40 -06004If you are new to the NDN community of software generally, read the
5[Contributor's Guide](https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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ashu4c858802015-04-15 11:28:07 -05007### What is Mini-NDN?
carlosmscabrale3c810e2013-02-25 18:15:40 -03008
Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -05009Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables testing, experimentation, and
Vince Lehman4e7df5a2015-07-21 11:55:49 -050010research on the NDN platform. Based on [Mini-CCNx](https://github.com/chesteve/mn-ccnx) which
11is a fork of [Mininet](https://github.com/mininet/mininet), Mini-NDN uses the NDN libraries,
12NFD, NLSR, and tools released by the [NDN project](http://named-data.net/codebase/platform/)
13to emulate an NDN network on a single system.
carlosmscabrale3c810e2013-02-25 18:15:40 -030014
Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -050015Mini-NDN is open and free software licensed under the GPL 3.0 license. Mini-NDN is free to all
16users and developers. For more information about licensing details and limitations,
17please refer to [COPYING.md](COPYING.md).
carlosmscabrale3c810e2013-02-25 18:15:40 -030018
Vince Lehman4e7df5a2015-07-21 11:55:49 -050019The first release of Mini-NDN is developed by members of the NSF-sponsored NDN project team.
20Mini-NDN is open to contribution from the public.
21For more details, please refer to [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md).
Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -050022Bug reports and feedback are highly appreciated and can be made through our
Vince Lehman4e7df5a2015-07-21 11:55:49 -050023[Redmine site](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn) and the
24[mini-ndn mailing list](http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/mini-ndn).
carlosmscabrale3c810e2013-02-25 18:15:40 -030025
26### Documentation
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Vince Lehman608a1332015-07-14 17:47:49 -050028* [Installation](INSTALL.md)
29* [Getting Started](docs/GETTING-STARTED.md)
30* [Mini-NDN Edit](docs/GUI.md)
31* [Running Experiments](docs/EXPERIMENTS.md)
32* [Mini-NDN Redmine](http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn)
Nick Gordon22642a32017-12-21 14:05:40 -060033* [Contributor's Guide](https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)