Experience on the development of LISP-enabled services: An ISP perspective

As the current Internet architecture is suffering from scalability issues, the network research community has proposed alternative designs for the Internet architecture. Among those solutions, the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) has been considered as the most promising solution due to its incrementally deployable feature. Despite of various advantages provided by LISP, many ISPs are still conservative to adopt LISP into their production network due to the fact that the standard LISP does not fully satisfy ISP's requirements on LISP-enabled services. In this paper, we propose LISP controller, a centralized LISP management system. By using the LISP controller, we evaluate ISP's three representative LISP use cases: traffic engineering, VM live migration and vertical handover. The results show that the proposed LISP controller allows an ISP to control and manage its LISP-enabled services while satisfying ISP's requirements.