An identifier-locator approach to host multihoming
Abstract
Host multihoming allows individual hosts to be multiply connected to the network, e.g. by concurrent use of two network prefixes, each network prefix tied to a separate network interface. Such multihoming capability improves the host's ability to implement such features as load-balancing, fail-over and multi-path transport protocols. However, IP does not directly support host multihoming today. The em Identifier / Locator split solution space is seen as one way for reducing such negative impact. We present an evaluation of host- multihoming as a prototype implementation of the em Identifier Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) on FreeBSD, as a superset of IPv6 -- called ILNPv6. We demonstrate load-balancing using ILNPv6 multihoming and compare performance with IPv6 forwarding at the end host.
Citation
Simpson , B & Bhatti , S N 2014 , An identifier-locator approach to host multihoming . in 2014 IEEE 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) . IEEE , pp. 139-147 . https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2014.22
Publication
2014 IEEE 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)
Type
Conference item
Description
We are grateful to Cisco for their University Research Programmme (URP) in supporting this work. Date of Acceptance: 24/01/2014Collections
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