Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2011, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (4): 104-110.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(10)60091-X

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Hierarchical network with diversified customer edge access

李锐,黄韬,陈建亚,刘韵洁   

  1. 北京邮电大学
  • 收稿日期:2010-09-30 修回日期:2011-04-02 出版日期:2011-08-31 发布日期:2011-08-24
  • 通讯作者: 李锐 E-mail:lirui816@gmail.com
  • 基金资助:

    This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB310701, 2011CB302900), and the National Key Science and Technology Projects (2010ZX03004-002)

Hierarchical network with diversified customer edge access

  • Received:2010-09-30 Revised:2011-04-02 Online:2011-08-31 Published:2011-08-24
  • Supported by:

    This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB310701, 2011CB302900), and the National Key Science and Technology Projects (2010ZX03004-002)

摘要:

The Internet today originates from the advanced research project agency network (ARPANET) and evolves constantly during the past years. However, with incremental ‘patches’ on the Internet, the current network architecture faces many problems which are too difficult to solve. In the light of recent interest in re-designing the Internet, the separation of core network and customer edge network, and the separation of identifier and locator receive wide consensus among scientists. We follow this direction and propose a new hierarchical network with diversified customer edge access (HNDCE) in this paper. We use switching addresses, routing addresses and identifiers to implement a true core/edge and locator/identifier split. In the core network, hierarchical switching addresses combined with tree topology makes routing replaced by switching. The Viliant load-balancing (VLB) structure is used here to compensate the topology’s reliability and scalability. In the customer edge network, the split of locator and identifier makes it possible to deploy various routing schemes and new services. Hierarchical mapping system is also designed to support this new architecture.

关键词:

hierarchical, identification, switching; separation, VLB

Abstract:

The Internet today originates from the advanced research project agency network (ARPANET) and evolves constantly during the past years. However, with incremental ‘patches’ on the Internet, the current network architecture faces many problems which are too difficult to solve. In the light of recent interest in re-designing the Internet, the separation of core network and customer edge network, and the separation of identifier and locator receive wide consensus among scientists. We follow this direction and propose a new hierarchical network with diversified customer edge access (HNDCE) in this paper. We use switching addresses, routing addresses and identifiers to implement a true core/edge and locator/identifier split. In the core network, hierarchical switching addresses combined with tree topology makes routing replaced by switching. The Viliant load-balancing (VLB) structure is used here to compensate the topology’s reliability and scalability. In the customer edge network, the split of locator and identifier makes it possible to deploy various routing schemes and new services. Hierarchical mapping system is also designed to support this new architecture.

Key words:

hierarchical, identification, switching; separation, VLB