Scalable Addressing and Routing in Large-Scale Wireless Networks

Abstract

One of the main characteristics of future networks will be the considerable increase in the number of communicating entities; PCs and laptops, but also PDAs, 3G phones, sensors, wearable devices, etc., will all connect to and communicate with each other, to form large-scale intelligent networks, integrating different technologies. On the other hand, there will be a considerable shift from fixed, wired devices to mobile, wireless ones. In these conditions, the current IP based mechanisms are foreseen not to fit these new network structures. Therefore, alternative addressing and routing solutions are needed to handle these large and highly mobile, dynamic, wireless networks. In this paper we propose a new, scalable approach to the addressing and routing problems that emerge in the context of the envisioned future network architecture.