Fault Tolerant Scalable Support for Network Portability and Traffic Engineering

Abstract

The P-SHIM6 architecture provides ISP independence to IPv6 sites without compromising scalability. This architecture is based on a middle-box, the P-SHIM6, which manages the SHIM6 protocol exchange on behalf of the nodes of a site, which are configured with provider independent addresses. Incoming and outgoing packets are processed by the P-SHIM6 box, which can assign different locators to a given communication, either when it is started, or dynamically after the communication has been established. As a consequence, changes required for provider portability are minimized, and fine-grained Traffic Engineering can be enforced at the P-SHIM6 box, in addition to the fault tolerance support provided by SHIM6. This project has been supported by the RiNG project IST-2005-035167 and by the IMPROVISA project TSI2005-07384-C03-02. Publicado

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Original document

The different versions of the original document can be found in:

• http://hdl.handle.net/10016/2846

• https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/bitstream/10016/2846/1/P-SHIM6.pdf