Domain Identifiers In A Next Generation Internet Architecture

In this paper we make the domain entity a first class citizen. The concept of Domain Identifiers (DIDs) is introduced to effectively bring the domains to the next generation Internet scenario. The paper presents an architecture to address challenging next generation Internet requirements such as node and domain mobility, multi-homing, security, network composition and inter-domain routing. Although our architecture supports all the mentioned requirements, the focus of this paper is specifically on node and domain mobility in order to evaluate and compare the advantages of having DIDs for facilitating the mobility. First, we present the generic Next Generation Internet architecture proposal and its envisioned scenario. Then, we show how to instantiate it to work together with the current Internet. We have developed a prototype to evaluate our proposal and we depict results related to node and domain mobility under this gradual deployment scenario using the Internet as the core. © 2009 IEEE.Farinacci, D., Fuller, V., Oran, D., Meyer, D., Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) (2007) IETF Draft - draft-farinacci-lisp-05. txt, p. 14. , NovSchuetz, E.S., Winter, R., Burness, L., Eardley, P., Ahlgren, B., Node Identity Internetworking Architecture (2007) IETF Draft - draft-schuetz-nidarch- 00, , September, 14Moskowitz, R., Nikander, P., (2006) Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Architecture, , IETF RFC-4423, MayM. Caesar, K. Lakshminarayanan, T. Condie, I. Stoica, J. Kannan, and S. Shenker, ROFL: Routing on Flat Labels, In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM, Pisa, Italy, September 11-15, 2006, pp. 363 - 374Schmid, S., Eggert, L., Brunner, M., Quittek, J., TurfNet: An Architecture for Dinamically Composable Networks, Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC), Berlin, Germany, October 18-19, 2004, vol LNCS, 3457, pp. 94-114Information, , http://www.ambient-networks.org, available at:, 2007Ng, C., Zhao, F., Watari, M., Thubert, P., (2007) Network Mobility Route Optimization Solution Space Analysis, , IETF RFC-4889, JulyDoria, A., Davies, E., Kastenholz, F., A Set of Possible Requirements for a Future Routing Architecture (2008) IETF Draft - draft-irtf-routing-reqs- 10.txt, , JuneWong, W., Verdi, F.L., Magalhaes, M., A next generation internet architecture for mobility and multi-homing support (2007) ACM CoNext Student Workshop. New York, , NY, DecemberWong, W., Villaça, R., Paula, L.B., Pasquini, R., Verdi, F.L., Magalhães, M., An Architecture for Mobility Support in a Next Generation Internet (2008) The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information, Networking and Applications (AINA 2008), , MarchStoica, I., Morris, R., Karger, D., Kaashoek, M.F., Balakrishnan, H., Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications ACM SIGCOMM 2001 - San Diego, CA, EUA, August, 2001Johnson, D., Perkins, C., Arkko, J., (2004) Mobility Support in IPv6, , IETF RFC-3775, JunePaula, L.B., Villaça, R., Welin, A., Verdi, F.L., Magalhães, M., A Web Service-based Network Composition Architecture for the Next Generation Internet (2008) The 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM 2008), , SeptemberFord, B., (2003) Scalable internet routing on topology-independent node identities, , http://project-iris.net, MIT technical report conducted as part of the IRIS project, Octobe