Otanes: A live TV simulator for Content-Centric Networking

The tremendous growth of the Internet traffic and the rapid changes that have occurred in the way people using it to access massive contents, instruct the research community to data oriented networks. Over the last few years, various data oriented network architectures have emerged to fulfill the demand for a more scalable content distribution. Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is an architecture that has attracted a good consideration. A significant portion of Internet traffic growth relates to diverse types of multimedia applications, including live TV. In fact, delivering television services over the existing Internet protocol (IPTV) has been commercialized for more than a decade. Emigrating to the new network generation requires well analysis of the current applications. Nevertheless, CCN still suffers from the shortage of suitable simulators. We have developed a new modular, component based CCN simulator specifically optimized for live TV modeling. We have published it as an open source utility. In this paper, we present our simulator and evaluate its capabilities on the simulation of live video streaming over CCN.