Versatile Routing and Self-Certifying Features Support for Secure Mobility in eXpressive Internet Architecture

Integrating mobility and security in the network layer has become a key factor for Future Internet Architecture(FIA). This paper proposes a secure mobility support mechanism in e Xpressive Internet Architecture(XIA),a new FIA currently under development as part of the US National Science Foundation's(NSF) program. Utilizing the natural features of ID/locator decoupling and versatile routing in XIA, a general mechanism to support host mobility is proposed. Exploiting the self-certifying identifier, a secure binding update protocol to overcome the potential threats introduced by the proposed mobility support mechanism is also given. We demonstrate that our design in XIA outperforms IP based solutions in terms of efficiency and flexibility. We also outline our initial design to illustrate one derivative benefit of an evolvable architecture:mobility support customizability with no sacrifice of architectural generality.

A Survey on Information-Centric Networking: Rationales, Designs and Debates

The basic function of the Internet is to delivery data(what) to serve the needs of all applications. IP names the attachment points(where) to facilitate ubiquitous interconnectivity as the current way to deliver data. The fundamental mismatch between data delivery and naming attachment points leads to a lot of challenges, e.g., mapping from data name to IP address, handling dynamics of underlying topology, scaling up the data distribution, and securing communication, etc. Informationcentric networking(ICN) is proposed to shift the focus of communication paradigm from where to what, by making the named data the first-class citizen in the network, The basic consensus of ICN is to name the data independent from its container(space dimension) and session(time dimension), which breaks the limitation of point-to-point IP semantic. It scales up data distribution by utilizing available resources, and facilitates communication to fit diverse connectivity and heterogeneous networks. However, there are only a few consensuses on the detailed design of ICN, and quite a few different ICN architectures are proposed. This paper reveals the rationales of ICN from the perspective of the Internet evolution, surveys different design choices, and discusses on two debatable topics in ICN, i.e.,self-certifying versus hierarchical names, and edge versus pervasive caching. We hope this survey helps clarify some mis-understandings on ICN and achieve more consensuses.

Mapping prediction with recurrent neural networks for future LISP enabled networks

Locator/identifier separation paradigm(LISP)is an emerging Internet architecture evolution trend that decouples the identifier and location of an entity attached to the Internet.Due to its flexibility,LISP has seen its application in various fields such as mobile edge computing,and V2X networks.However,LISP relies on a DNS-like mapping system to associate identifiers and locations before connection establishment.Such a procedure incurs an extra latency overhead and thus hinders the adoption of LISP in delay-sensitive use cases.In this paper,we propose a novel RNN-based mapping prediction scheme to boost the performance of the LISP mapping resolution,by modeling the mapping procedure as a time series prediction problem.The key idea is to predict the mapping data regarding services to be utilized by users in edge networks administered by xTRs and proactively cache the mapping information within xTRs in advance.We compare our approach with several baseline methods,and the experiment results show a 30.02%performance gain in LISP cache hit ratio and 55.6%delay reduction compared with the case without mapping prediction scheme.This work preliminarily proves the potential of the approach in promoting lowlatency LISP-based use cases.

The road towards future Internet

Given the emerging problems of today’s Internet,many new Internet architectures have been proposed by the net-working community.In general,the new approaches can be categorized into two types:evolutionary approaches and clean-slate approaches.The representative evolutionary solution is IPv6,while representative clean-slate approaches are NDN(Named Data Networking),MobilityFirst,NEBULA,XIA(Expressive Internet Architecture),and SDN(Software-Defined Networking).A comprehensive survey of these approaches are presented.Additionally,a novel network architecture that we recently proposed:ADN(Address-Driven Networking)is described,which intends to address the challenges faced by today’s Internet via the flexible and innovative utilization of IP addresses.