VEIL: A "Plug-&-Play" Virtual (Ethernet) Id Layer for Below IP Networking

Author

Jain, Sonal ; Yingying Chen ; Zhi-Li Zhang ; Jain, Sonal

Author_Institution

Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Twin Cities, MN, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

Nov. 30 2009-Dec. 4 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper proposes VEIL-a novel, "plug-&-play" Virtual (Ethernet) Identifier (Id) Layer for below IP networking. The objective is two-fold: i) VEIL directly addresses the scalability, efficiency and reliability challenges facing the traditional Ethernet, while retaining its "plug-&-play" feature; ii) but perhaps more importantly, VEIL provides a uniform (below IP) convergence layer to support a large, dynamic and heterogeneous (layer-2) network that is capable of connecting hundreds of thousands or more diverse physical devices. The key idea in our design is to introduce a topology-aware, structured virtual id (vid) space onto which both physical identifiers as well as higher layer addresses/names are mapped. VEIL completely eliminates network-wide flooding in both the data and control planes, and thus is highly scalable and robust.

Keywords

IP networks; local area networks; telecommunication computing; IP networking; VEIL; convergence layer; dynamic network; ethernet; heterogeneous network; network-wide flooding; physical identifiers; plug-&-play virtual identifier layer; Convergence; Ethernet networks; Joining processes; Physical layer; Robust control; Robustness; Routing; Scalability; Switches; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

GLOBECOM Workshops, 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5626-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5625-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOMW.2009.5360774

Filename

5360774