Internet Indirection Infrastructure

  • Authors:
  • Ion Stoica;Daniel Adkins;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Scott Shenker;Sonesh Surana;Shelley Zhuang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper argues for an Internet Indirection Infrastructure that replaces the point-to-point communication abstraction of today's Internet with a rendezvous-based communication abstraction: instead of explicitly sending a packet to a destination, each packet is associated an identifier, which is then used by the receiver to get the packet. This level of indirection decouples the sender and the receiver behaviors, and allows us to efficiently support basic communication services such as multicast, anycast and mobility in the Internet. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, we are currently designing and building an overlay network solution based on the Chord lookup system.