NeTS: JUNO: Collaborative Research: Location-Based Forwarding and ID-Based Routing (LORIF) for the Future Internet

今天的互联网连接了越来越多的设备。据预测，到2020年，将有500亿台“智能”嵌入式设备连接到互联网。随着地址空间的日益枯竭，越来越多的用户、应用程序、服务和设备对Internet的地址空间提出了巨大的需求。与此同时，互联网用户希望在他们的指尖就能获得任何信息/服务。这加剧了对高可用性和可扩展Internet的需求。该项目旨在满足各种应用、服务和数万亿设备的可扩展性和可靠性需求。提出的架构称为基于位置的路由和基于ID的转发（LORIF），它支持基于目标主机ID的数据转发，同时根据终端主机的拓扑位置维护路由。每个主机可以有多个位置表示其拓扑标识。通过将主机ID映射到网络位置的新颖服务，LORIF使控制平面能够可扩展地利用路径多样性，同时促进数据平面提高端到端可靠性。LORIF通过提高通信基础设施的可扩展性和可靠性，为用户和社会带来了显著的效益。该项目汇集了来自不同背景的国际研究人员团队。这样的协作使跨大陆部署测试平台的可行性成为可能，并提高了将来采用的可能性。该项目将培养研究生和本科生在网络架构设计和测试平台开发方面的能力。

Today's Internet connects more and more devices. It has been predicted that by 2020, 50 billion "smart" embedded devices will be connected to the Internet. As the address space is nearly exhausted, the increasing users, applications, services, and devices pose a great demand on the Internet. At the same time, Internet users expect to have any information/service available at their fingertips. This exacerbates the need for a highly available and scalable Internet.The project aims to meet the scalability and reliability demands of diverse applications, services and trillions of devices. The proposed architecture, referred to as LOcation-based Routing and ID-based Forwarding or LORIF, supports data forwarding based on the ID of a destination host, while maintaining routes based on the topological locations of the end host. Each host may have multiple locations representing its topological identity. Through a novel service for mapping host ID to network location(s), LORIF enables the control plane to scaleably exploit path diversity, while at the same time, facilitating data plane to improvements in end-to-end reliability.LORIF brings significant benefits to users and the society by enhancing the scalability and reliability of our communication infrastructure. This project brings together an international team of researchers from diverse and complimentary backgrounds. Such a collaboration enables the feasibility of deploying the testbed across the continents, and enhances the odds of adoption in the future. This project will train graduate and undergraduate students in network architecture design and testbed development.