3 papers
cs.NI2026
SRAN: Scaling Named Data Networking via Map-and-Encap
Tianyuan Yu, Sirapop Theeranantachai, Lixia Zhang
Network routing scalability is hard to achieve when forwarding state is driven by external entities such as end users or multicast groups. Named Data Networking (NDN) faces this ch…
cs.NI2026
From Map-and-Encap to BIER: Observations on Network Routing Scalability
Tianyuan Yu, Lan Wang, Beichuan Zhang +1
The TCP/IP protocol stack uses IP addresses for two distinct roles: identifying hosts and locating their attachment points in the network topology. This dual purpose creates a fund…
cs.NI2025
SRM at 30: Lessons from Early Data-Centric Networking and Their Impact on Named Data Networking
Tianyuan Yu, Adam Thieme, Junxiao Shi +2
A 1995 SIGCOMM paper, "A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application-Level Framing", commonly known as SRM, explored a fundamentally new approach to reli…