Fault Tolerant Scalable Support for Network Portability and Traffic Engineering

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WWIC
• Authors: Marcelo Bagnulo, Alberto García-Martínez, Arturo Azcorra
• Keywords: P-SHIM6 Architecture, P-SHIM6 Box, Provider Independent Addresses, Wireless Networks, WWIC 2007