Performance Comparison of Named Data Networking and IP-based Networking in Palapa Ring Network Muhammad Najib Dwi Satria 1 , Farchah Hidayatul Ilma 2 , Nana Rachmana Syambas 3 School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia muhammadnajib@students.itb.ac.id 1 , farchahilma@students.itb.ac.id 2 , nana@stei.itb.ac.id 3 Abstract—Communication system in the digital era requires time efficiency in sending an information from source to destination. Palapa Ring is a national fiber optic network construction project that will reach as many as 34 provinces, 440 cities and regencies across Indonesia with total sea cable length of 35,280 kilometers, and cable on land is 21,807 kilometers. In this paper, the comparison of Internet Protocol (IP) based network and Named Data Networking Network (NDN) on Palapa Ring network will be discussed with three metrics: throughput, delay, and packet drop; which IP has been a universal network layer that implement all functionality for global interconnectivity and NDN is an entirely new architecture that focus on its contents instead of the address to get that contents. The result of this research shows that the throughput, delay, and packet drop of NDN are better that IP-based network. Keywords—Named Data Networking, IP, Palapa Ring, Performance I. INTRODUCTION IP network is a protocol designed to perform data communication function on a network. IP consists of a set of protocols, each responsible for part of a data communication as well as for exchanging data within a network. Growth in the digital era has led the Internet to be used as a distribution network that is essentially more general than communication network and solve the problem of distribution via point-to- point communication protocols is complex and error-prone [3]. NDN is a proposed evolution from today’s host-centric network architecture (IP) to a data-centric network architecture (NDN) [1]. NDN is a fundamental shift from IP-based network architecture to a content-based name, where content name consists of one or more variable length components. Communication in NDN uses pull mode: a consumer request content by sending an interest packet. If the entity (router or host) can “satisfy” a certain wish then it returns the appropriate content packet. Interest and content are two types of packages in the NDN. A content packet with the name X will not be forwarded unless requested by an interest for the name X. The components in the NDN include the Content Store (CS), which is the cache memory, like a buffer memory of an IP router with the difference in replacement strategy; the Forwarding Interest Base (FIB), which stores the next-hop information for every known content prefix (more than one interface can be associated to a single prefix entry); the Pending Interest Table (PIT), which keeps track of the arrival faces associated to the Interest packets which have been previously forwarded but that are still unsatisfied [2]. Content store is the important key component of NDN. [3] [9] Our research is to report the progress about the concept of the NDN as well as the development of previous study which is comparing the performance of IP-based network with NDN on Inherent (Indonesian Higher Education Network) network. This research is about comparing the performance of IP-based network and NDN on Palapa Ring Network. Considering the concept of NDN, NDN will have advantages compared to IP- based network in terms of demand for large content such as video streaming and download. Caching methods that exist on NDN node play an important role in reducing the existing constrains on IP. This research also proves that NDN performs better that IP in terms of throughput, packet drop, and delay. II. NDN OVERVIEW A. Named Data Networking The Named Data Networking (NDN) project proposed an evolution of the IP architecture that generalized the role of this thin waist, such that packets can name objects other than communication endpoints (Figure 1). NDN is one of instance of a more general network research direction called information-centric networking (ICN), under which different architecture design has emerged. Communication in NDN is driven by receivers i.e., data consumers, through the exchange of two types of packets: Interest and Data. Both types of packets carry a name that Fig. 1. Differences between IP-based network and NDN