Award Abstract # 1402594
NeTS: JUNO: Collaborative Research: Location-Based Forwarding and ID-Based Routing (LORIF) for the Future Internet

NSF Org: CNS
Division Of Computer and Network Systems
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Initial Amendment Date: January 30, 2014
Latest Amendment Date: January 30, 2014
Award Number: 1402594
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: John Brassil
CNS
 Division Of Computer and Network Systems
CSE
 Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date: April 1, 2014
End Date: March 31, 2018 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $245,999.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $245,999.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2014 = $245,999.00
History of Investigator:
  • Lixin Gao (Principal Investigator)
    lgao@ecs.umass.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of Massachusetts Amherst
101 COMMONWEALTH AVE
AMHERST
MA  US  01003-9252
(413)545-0698
Sponsor Congressional District: 02
Primary Place of Performance: University of Massachusetts Amherst
MA  US  01003-9242
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): VGJHK59NMPK9
Parent UEI: VGJHK59NMPK9
NSF Program(s): Special Projects - CNS
Primary Program Source: 01001415DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 7071
Program Element Code(s): 171400
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

Today's Internet connects more and more devices. It has been predicted that by 2020, 50 billion "smart" embedded devices will be connected to the Internet. As the address space is nearly exhausted, the increasing users, applications, services, and devices pose a great demand on the Internet. At the same time, Internet users expect to have any information/service available at their fingertips. This exacerbates the need for a highly available and scalable Internet.

The project aims to meet the scalability and reliability demands of diverse applications, services and trillions of devices. The proposed architecture, referred to as LOcation-based Routing and ID-based Forwarding or LORIF, supports data forwarding based on the ID of a destination host, while maintaining routes based on the topological locations of the end host. Each host may have multiple locations representing its topological identity. Through a novel service for mapping host ID to network location(s), LORIF enables the control plane to scaleably exploit path diversity, while at the same time, facilitating data plane to improvements in end-to-end reliability.

LORIF brings significant benefits to users and the society by enhancing the scalability and reliability of our communication infrastructure. This project brings together an international team of researchers from diverse and complimentary backgrounds. Such a collaboration enables the feasibility of deploying the testbed across the continents, and enhances the odds of adoption in the future. This project will train graduate and undergraduate students in network architecture design and testbed development.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Xiaozhe Shao, Hiroaki Harai, and Kenji Fujikawa "Towards Reliable and Lightweight Source Switching for Datacenter Networks" IEEE INFOCOM 2017 , 2017
Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Xiaozhe Shao, Hiroaki Harai, and Kenji Fujikawa "Towards Reliable and Lightweight Source Switching for Datacenter Networks" IEEE INFOCOM , 2017
Timothy Mark Vanetten, Amy Charissa Williams, Deng Jiahuan, Feng Wang, and Lixin Gao "SoC-Based Implementation of a Lightweight Label Switching Router" 29th International Teletraffic Congress , 2017
Xiaozhe Shao, Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, and Kenji Fujikawa and Hiroaki Harai "Distributed Encoding for Multiple-inherited Locators to Accommodate Billions of Objects in the Internet" IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems , 2016
Feng Wang, Xiaozhe Shao, Lixin Gao, Hiroaki Harai, and Kenji Fujikawa "Towards Variable Length Addressing for Scalable Internet Routing" 35rd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference , 2016
Kenji Fujikawa, Abu Hena Al Muktadir, Yusuke Fukushima, Hiroaki Harai, Xiaozhe Shao, Feng Wang, and Lixin Gao "Design and Implementation of Variable-Length Locator Allocation Protocol for Scalable Internet Addressing" APCC 2015 (The 21st Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications) , 2015
Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Xiaozhe Shao, Hiroaki Harai, and Kenji Fujikawa "Implementation and Measurement of Location-based Routing and ID-based Forwarding Architecture for Internet of Things" IEEE Globecom 2017 , 2017
Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Xiaozhe Shao, Hiroaki Harai, and Kenji Fujikawa "Efficient Handling of Excessive Locators in Hierarchical Addressing" 21th IEEE Global Internet Symposium , 2018
Feng Wang,Lixin Gao,Shao Xiaozhe,Hiroaki Harai and Kenji Fujikawa "Compact Location Encodings for Scalable Internet Routing" IEEE Conference on Computer Communications , 2015
Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Xiaozhe Shao, Hiroaki Harai, and Kenji Fujikawa "Labelling and Encoding Hierarchical Addressing for Scalable Internet Routing" Advances in Computer and Computational Sciences. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , 2017

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

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The research in this project has led to a novel ID-based data forwarding mechanism and location-based routing. This project has produced a design and subsequent development of a series of address encoding and allocation schemes, as well as an automatic address configuration and distribution protocol to meet the scalability requirements of the proposed Internet architecture. Two testbeds have been developed to validate the performance of the developed solutions. Furthermore, this project has contributed various extensive service modules to reduce the end-to-end latency and support mobility capabilities and the authentication of the devices. The encoding algorithms and modules designed in this project provide insights on how address encoding and allocation can be utilized to provide better Internet service to end-users at a lower cost, and improve the efficiency of traffic flows in data center networks, IoT network and other wireless systems.   

In addition to publishing over 11 journal and conference articles, we provided research opportunities for 5 undergraduate students at Liberty University, including a female undergraduate student. The students contributed to the research by implementing an FPGA-based hardware acceleration, and presented their work in an international conference. The students gained research, programming, and reporting skills in this project, and were well-prepared for the high-tech workforce.  The project has integrated research and education through the participation of both undergraduate and graduate students in the project and by incorporation of research outcomes into undergraduate and graduate coursework.

 


Last Modified: 04/26/2018
Modified by: Lixin Gao

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