A DHTs-Based Mapping System for Identifier and Locator Separation Network

Today's Internet is facing routing scalability issues, which could degrade network performance seriously. To solve that, several solutions are currently being discussed. Among them, one promising approach is to set up a new architecture which separates the locator and the identifier roles of current IP addresses. A key question for the solution is how to provide an efficient and reliable service for mapping the identifiers to the locators in the new architecture. We propose a mapping system design based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs).