Title
Virtualization architecture using the ID/Locator split concept for Future Wireless Networks (FWNs)
Abstract
Future Wireless Networks (FWNs) will be a convergence of many fixed and mobile networking technologies including cellular, wireless LANs, and traditional wired networks. This united ubiquitous network will consist of billions of networkable devices with different networking interfaces. A common networking protocol is required to communicate among these devices and interfaces; System Architecture Evolution (SAE) documents state that Internet Protocol (IP), world-widely used in the current Internet, is likely to become that common protocol. However, traditional IP architecture has faced several known challenges, such as mobility, multihoming, privacy, path preference selection, etc., which should be resolved in FWNs. One of the difficulties in the current IP architecture is the overloading of IP addresses used both as the identity and the location of IP devices. In this paper, we propose a virtualization concept for networkable components, or (virtual) objects, which generalizes all abstract components to potentially be used in FWNs. In addition, we have explicitly separated the functions of the virtual object identity from the virtual object location (using the ID/locator split concept). The end-to-end communication is a concatenation of the involved components, called a channel. To help support the ownership and policy enforcement for trusted vs. untrusted networks, a set of (virtual) networkable components with the same interest, called a realm, is formed in a multi-tier structure. The individual policy can be enforced for each individual group of (virtual) objects and/or channels. This virtualization architecture concept, characterized by the ID/locator split concept, is well-suited for FWNs and helps eliminate problems in the current Internet.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.comnet.2010.08.013
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
ID/Locator split,Future Wireless Networks,FWNs,Next generation wireless networks,NGWNs,Mobility,Multihoming,Privacy,System Architecture Evolution,SAE,Virtual object,Object,Virtual object to virtual object communication,Virtual channel,Channel,Multi-tier,Future wireless internet,Future internet,Network architecture
Journal
55
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
Computer Networks
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
22
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chakchai So-In138539.68
raj jain258821742.88
Subharthi Paul338224.60
Jianli Pan447133.61