On the Dynamics of Locators in LISP
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 13:56 by Damien Saucez
Abstract
In the Internet, IP addresses play the dual role of identifying the hosts and
locating them on the topology. This design choice limits the way a network can
control its traffic and causes scalability issues. To overcome this limitation,
the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) has been introduced. In LISP,
the addresses used to identify end hosts (i.e., identifiers) are independent of
the addresses used to locate them (i.e., locators). LISP maps identifiers into
a list of locators and provides a mean to transport the packets with the
appropriate locator. A key feature of this separation is that several locators
can be associated to a given identifier, leading to more control for an
end-site on the path selection to reach a given destination.
In this paper, we show that the choice of the locator can have an impact on the
performance and the reliability of the communication in a LISP environment. To
this aim, we build a mapping between identifiers and locators as if LISP were
deployed today. In addition, we extensively collect delay data between
locators and demonstrate that the locator selection for a given identifier
prefix impacts the performance of the LISP path in 25% of the cases. Finally,
we measure the locators availability over time and demonstrate that it remains
quite stable.
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- Damien Saucez and Benoit Donnet
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IFIP Networking 2012 , 2012.- Notes
- Dataset available at http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/content/locator-reachability-dataset See also http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/bitstream/2268/112567/1/paper.pdf
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