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A Unified Packet Core Network Architecture and Drone Prototype for ID/locator Separation

Authors:
Shoushou Ren
Yongtao Zhang
Shihui Hu

Keywords: ID/locator separation, Unified Packet Core, identifier, locator, handover

Abstract:
In recent years, new applications are raise restrict requirements and great challenges to the Internet. However, the current IP-based Internet architecture cannot accommodate well with these applications and cannot meet people’s demands as before. This is mainly caused by the overloading of Internet protocol (IP) address semantics, namely, an IP address represents not only the location but also the identity of a host. To address this problem, researchers have proposed to replace the IP namespace with separation of namespaces for identities and locators. In this paper, we propose a Unified Packet Core (UPC) network architecture based on Identity Oriented Network (ION) to realize the separation of identities and locators. The UPC architecture also provides a unified access network gateway, which can support hosts to access Internet with multiple Radio Access Technologies. Further, a drone prototype implementation is also designed and described for the validation of the UPC architecture. The prototype realize the ID-based connection between a moving drone and a fixed stationary endpoint. It is also verified that the ID-based connection can be kept continuous even when the drone moves across different gateways. The prototype shows that the basic idea of ID/Locator separation is a feasible and positive evolution of the current Internet architecture.

Pages: 167 to 174

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2017

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2601