  Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as an interesting approach
to overcome many of the limitations of legacy IP-based networks. However, the
drastic changes to legacy infrastructure required to realise an ICN have
significantly hindered its adoption by network operators. As a result,
alternative deployment strategies are investigated, with Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) arising as a solution compatible with legacy infrastructure,
thus opening new possibilities for integrating ICN concepts in operators'
networks. This paper discusses the seamless integration of these two
architectural paradigms and suggests a scalable and dynamic network topology
bootstrapping and management framework to deploy and operate ICN topologies
over SDN-enabled operator networks. We describe the designed protocol and
supporting mechanisms, as well as the minimum required implementation to
realize this inter-operability. A proof-of-concept prototype has been
implemented to validate the feasibility of the approach. Results show that
topology bootstrapping time is not significantly affected by the topology size,
substantially facilitating the intelligent management of an ICN-enabled
network.
