New mapping system in networks with locator/identifier separation

The locator/identifier separation is a design principle for new routing architectures that make Internet routing more scalable. Finding the location of a host requires a mapping system that returns appropriate locators in response to mapping requests for specific identifiers. In this paper, we propose a mapping system in networks with locator/identifier separation assuming that the network is divided into many administrative domains (ADs). Each AD in the proposed mapping system manages three mapping tables supporting registration, MAP-request, response, and mobility. We propose to use self-certifying ID to maintain security and privacy, and distributed hash tables (DHTs) to build a scalable mappings system. We show that the proposed scheme efficiently supports registration, MAP-request, response, and mobility.