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Ashlesh Gawande6c86e302019-09-17 22:27:05 -05001Introduction
Davide Pesavento82cc17a2025-02-17 18:30:05 -05002============
Ashlesh Gawande6c86e302019-09-17 22:27:05 -05003
4What is Mini-NDN?
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7Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables testing, experimentation, and
Davide Pesavento82cc17a2025-02-17 18:30:05 -05008research on the NDN platform. It was initially based on `Mini-CCNx <https://github.com/chesteve/mn-ccnx>`__
9which was a fork of `Mininet <https://github.com/mininet/mininet>`__. Mini-NDN uses the NDN libraries,
10NFD, NLSR, and tools released by the `NDN project <https://named-data.net/codebase/platform/>`__
11to emulate an NDN network on a single system.
Ashlesh Gawande6c86e302019-09-17 22:27:05 -050012
13The first release of Mini-NDN is developed by members of the NSF-sponsored NDN project team.
14Mini-NDN is open to contribution from the public.
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16.. image:: minindnnet.svg
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18License
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Davide Pesavento82cc17a2025-02-17 18:30:05 -050021Mini-NDN is free and open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License
22version 3. For more information about licensing details and limitations, please refer to
23`COPYING.md <https://github.com/named-data/mini-ndn/blob/master/COPYING.md>`__.
Ashlesh Gawande6c86e302019-09-17 22:27:05 -050024
25Feedback/Mailing List
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28Bug reports and feedback are highly appreciated and can be made through our
Davide Pesavento82cc17a2025-02-17 18:30:05 -050029`Redmine site <https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/mini-ndn>`__ and the
30`mini-ndn mailing list <https://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/mini-ndn>`__.
Ashlesh Gawande6c86e302019-09-17 22:27:05 -050031
Davide Pesavento82cc17a2025-02-17 18:30:05 -050032If you are new to the NDN software community and intend to contribute to the codebase, please read our
33`Contributor's Guide <https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md>`__.