A Novel DHT-Based Network Architecture for the Next Generation Internet

Abstract

The Internet architecture of today is the result of a constant evolution during the past 25 years. However, this layering of add-ons, bug fixes and extensions has grown into a tremendously complex and, therefore, increasingly static platform. On the contrary, a multitude of new challenges related to issues never conceived in the original design, such as security and mobility has become more and more important. Hence, we propose a clean-slate approach based on a two-tier locator identifier split. Combined with Distributed Hash-Tables (DHT), we developed a scalable long-term alternative to the current Internet architecture.