Visible to the public Logical Topology of Networks Implementing IPv6 Addressing

TitleLogical Topology of Networks Implementing IPv6 Addressing
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsIzem, Acia, Wakrim, Mohamed, Ghadi, Abderrahim
Conference NameProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart City Applications
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Conference LocationCasablanca, Morocco
ISBN Number978-1-4503-6289-4
KeywordsCollaboration, composability, IPv6, ipv6 security, ISP, logical, Metrics, Network, policy-based governance, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, routing table, the pythagoras tree, Topology
AbstractThe massive growth of the global routing tables is one of the biggest problems that still face internet nowadays. This problem is mainly caused by the random distribution of IPv4 addresses. With the immigration to IPv6 and the large ranges of addresses provided by this protocol, it is crucial to wisely manage the assignment of IPv6 prefixes. In this paper, we propose a process to generate a logical topology of IPv6 networks. This topology uses perfectly the summarization technique and consists in representing the summary routes in hierarchical manner such that large range of addresses represents several smaller ranges. The proposed aggregation process optimizes and divides up the routing tables which may help resolve the problem of the explosive growth of internet routing tables. Furthermore, the logical topology can be easly customized to fit the features of the routers that are used in the network.
DOI10.1145/3368756.3369033
Citation Keyizem_logical_2019