architecture/README.md

# D4 Project Architecture

# Objectives

- A lightweight protocol to support streaming collection of different data types
- A minimal architecture to create dedicated sensor network (internal or external)
- Keeping a simple set of software to support a wide variety of sensor types (software, hardware or virtual)
- Provide an all-in-one open source solution with minimal dependencies
- Supporting additional information sharing capabilities to interconnect D4 sensor networks
- A set of default ready-to-run sensor network such as a DDoS backscatter traffic monitoring, Passive DNS collection or specific network monitoring

## D4 Encapsulation Protocol

![Overview of the D4 encapsulation protocol](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/D4-project/architecture/master/docs/diagram/d4-protocol-encapsulation.png)

For more details about the encapsulation protocol, check out the [format](./format/) page.