Title
The Impact of Port-Based Address-Sharing on Residential Broadband Access Networks
Abstract
The looming depletion of the public IPv4 address space has recently inspired a number of proposals intended to work around the inevitable address shortage. Broadly, all of these can be classified as address sharing, tunneling and translation mechanisms. While IPv6 is the proper solution to the problem as it simply makes more addresses available, the deployment hurdles of IPv6 make it questionable whether it will be universally available once the IPv4 address pool runs out. In this paper we focus on one of these solutions, namely A+P, that allocates a "fraction" of an IP address to end hosts by restricting the usable port range. We compare a number of strategies to use and reuse port numbers. Based on data from an ISP's access line serving nearly 7000 residential broadband customers these strategies are analyzed. To this end, we performed a hypothetical optimization exercise to find the optimal number of customers that can share a single IPv4 address.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5683449
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Address Sharing,Network Address Translation
IPv6,Address pool,IPv4,Port (computer networking),Telecommunications,Computer security,Computer science,Server,Computer network,IP address management,Broadband networks,IPv4 address exhaustion
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1930-529X
2
0.41
References 
Authors
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Ripke1473.18
R. Winter220.41
Marcus Brunner329634.18
Jürgen Quittek49611.19
H. Zuleger520.41