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IP without IP addresses

Authors:

Saleem N. Bhatti,

Ditchaphong Phoomikiattisak,

Bruce SimpsonAuthors Info & Claims

AINTEC '16: Proceedings of the 12th Asian Internet Engineering Conference

Pages 41 - 48

https://doi.org/10.1145/3012695.3012701

Published: 30 November 2016 Publication History

Abstract

We discuss a key engineering challenge in implementing the Identifier- Locator Network Protocol (ILNP), as described in IRTF Experimental RFCs 6740--6748: enabling legacy applications that use the C sockets API. We have built the first two OS kernel implementations of ILNPv6 (ILNP as a superset of IPv6), in both the Linux OS kernel and the FreeBSD OS kernel. Our evaluation is in comparison with IPv6, in the context of a topical and challenging scenario: host mobility implemented as a purely end-to-end function. Our experiments show that ILNPv6 has excellent potential for deployment using existing IPv6 infrastructure, whilst offering the new properties and functionality of ILNP.

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Index Terms

IP without IP addresses
1. Networks
  1. Network architectures
  2. Network protocols

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AINTEC '16: Proceedings of the 12th Asian Internet Engineering Conference

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DOI:10.1145/3012695

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Kasetsart University, Thailand

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Jiang SLi GCarpenter B(2020)A New Approach to a Service Oriented Internet ProtocolIEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9162749(273-278)Online publication date: Jul-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9162749
Phoomikiattisak DBhatti S(2019)End-To-End Mobility for the Internet Using ILNPWireless Communications & Mobile Computing10.1155/2019/74641792019Online publication date: 1-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2019/7464179
Yanagida RBhatti SHarle RFarrahi KLane N(2019)Seamless internet connectivity for ubiquitous communicationAdjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3341162.3349315(1022-1033)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3341162.3349315

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