A generic and scalable mapping system for ID/locator separation based future internet architectures

ID/Locator separation is a clean-slate way of addressing the challenges as mobility, routing scalability, scalable multi-homing, traffic engineering faced by current Internet. By now many ID/Locator separation based future Internet architectures have been proposed by the Internet research community. And it is commonly believed that mapping system plays a very important role in ID/Locator separation based architecture, making a bridge for connecting ID and Locator for users and hosts. In this paper we propose a generic and scalable mapping system for ID/Locator separation architecture, which is organized in hierarchical DHT way, providing great scalability, robustness, and flexibility.