This task regroups foundational data structures that are required for efficient storage and processing during regular forwarder operations. They will be combined to create the high-level hICN data structures such as the PIT/CS, FIB and Face table.

Those data structure should reduce the amount of malloc/free in the codebase by offering a pool of resources that will be reused in time, as done in VPP. 

Important aspects to consider for these data structures :

• avoid reimplementing if possible, to leverage an already maintained codebase
• license
• portability
• reasonable performance (we don't have the same requirements as VPP)
• cpu/memory tradeoff (eg. mobile plaforms)