WSEAS Transactions on Communications
Print ISSN: 1109-2742, E-ISSN: 2224-2864
Volume 12, 2013
Design of Flexible Layer-3 Routing Protocol with Variable-Length Address Information and Its Implementation
Authors: , , ,
Abstract: In next-generation network architectures, the number of nodes and equipment connected to information networks increase more than ever. Due to the explosive increase of network equipment, an information retrieval technique to access information surely and efficiently will be strongly required. For this, one of the current approaches is intelligent routing, such as DHT, which is implemented on upper layers than IP layer. However, the inefficiency in processing packets and the mutual interference between layers are caused, because similar functions are implemented on different layers as different routing protocols. In this paper, we propose a new layer-3 routing protocol that can achieve flexible information retrieval implemented on overlay networks. For this purpose, we design a new routing protocol that can use variable-length address information, such as keyword or device name, as its address information. Moreover, we consider the feasibility of our routing protocol by implementing it to GNU Zebra as an extension of BGP.