ChinaCom2008-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

A pragmatic comparison of locator ID split solutions for routing system scalability

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685199,
        author={Louise Burness and Philip Eardley and Sheng Jiang and Xiaohu Xu},
        title={A pragmatic comparison of locator ID split solutions for routing system scalability},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-FCN},
        year={2008},
        month={11},
        keywords={Component; inter-domain routing; scalability; convergence; Locator ID separation},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685199}
    }
    
  • Louise Burness
    Philip Eardley
    Sheng Jiang
    Xiaohu Xu
    Year: 2008
    A pragmatic comparison of locator ID split solutions for routing system scalability
    CHINACOM2008-FCN
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685199
Louise Burness1,*, Philip Eardley1,*, Sheng Jiang2,*, Xiaohu Xu2,*
  • 1: Networks Research Centre British Telecommunications plc Ipswich, UK
  • 2: IP Technologies Research Department Huawei Technologies Co. LTD Beijing, China
*Contact email: louise.burness@bt.com, philip.eardley@bt.com, shengjiang@huawei.com, xuxh@huawei.com

Abstract

There are a multitude of different locator/ID split proposals aiming to tackle the problem of routing system scalability. However, with no large scale implementations, there is a lack of understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the different solutions. Here, we divide current proposals into two broad categories and consider the likely generic behaviour of each category compared to a set of requirements. These include the need to motivate specific system providers to upgrade the system in order to solve the wider problem of system scalability. From this, we see each class has different strengths and weaknesses.