Title :
Who needs addresses?
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
The author describes a framework for virtualising network addresses, reasoning that virtualisation requires reversing the usual the network-first, resource-second addressing order. A hierarchical name space is constructed for representing the shared resources by a homogenised form of URLs, a logical end-to-end route is constructed by combining the bind and connect requests over this name space, and used instead of end-to-end addresses for setting up virtual paths. Direct interpretation of the homogenised URLs ensures logical routing performance comparable to IP routing, and the logical route provides geographical trimming of the search in the transaction to virtual paths. Resulting features include a simple, uniform API for both point-to-point and multipoint connectivity, host security by invisibility, etc., which can be availed by privately deploying the framework over the existing networks
Keywords :
Internet; application program interfaces; authorisation; security of data; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; transport protocols; ATM; IP networks; IP routing; Internet; Internet protocol; asynchronous transfer mode; bind requests; connect requests; firewalls; hierarchical name space; homogenised URL; host security; logical end-to-end route; logical routing performance; multipoint connectivity; point-to-point connectivity; shared resources; uniform API; universal resource locators; virtual network addressing; virtual paths;
Conference_Titel :
Universal Multiservice Networks, 2000. ECUMN 2000. 1st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Colmar
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6419-8
DOI :
10.1109/ECUMN.2000.880792