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A virtualized link layer with support for indirection

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Per Gunningberg,

Christian TschudinAuthors Info & Claims

FDNA '04: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture

Pages 28 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/1016707.1016713

Published: 30 August 2004 Publication History

Abstract

The current Internet today hosts several extensions for indirection like Mobile IP, NAT, proxies, route selection and various network overlays. At the same time, user-controlled indirection mechanisms foreseen in the Internet architecture (e.g., loose source routing) cannot be used to implement these extensions. This is a consequence of the Internet's indirection semantics not being rich enough at some places and too rich at others. In order to achieve a more uniform handling of indirection we propose SelNet, a network architecture that is based on a virtualized link layer with explicit indirection support. Indirection in this context refers to user-controlled steering of packet flows through the network. We discuss the architectural implications of such a scheme and report on implementation progress.

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