Abstract:

The Host Identity Indirection Infrastructure (Hi3) is a networking architecture for mobile hosts, derived from the Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3) and the Host Identity Protocol (HIP). Hi3 has efficient support for secure mobility and multihoming, which both are crucial for future Internet applications. Compared to Mobile IP, Hi3 achieves better resilience, scalability and security. Considering all capabilities Hi3 provides, its implementation is much simpler than a corresponding implementation based on existing or proposed IETF standards. We present analytical evaluation of scalability of the Hi3 control plane and show preliminary performance measurement results.

Bio:

Dr. Andrei Gurtov received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, Finland. At the present, he is a senior research scientist leading the Networking Research group at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology focusing on the Host Identity Protocol and next generation Internet architecture. He is co-chairing the IRTF research group on HIP and teaches as an adjunct professor at Telecommunications and Multimedia Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology. Previously, his research focused on the performance of transport protocols in heterogeneous wireless networks. In 2000-2004, he served as a senior researcher at Sonera Finland contributing to performance optimization of GPRS/UMTS networks, intersystem mobility, and IETF standardization. In 2003, he spent six months as a visiting researcher in the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley working with Dr. Sally Floyd on simulation models of transport protocols in wireless networks. Dr. Gurtov is a co-author of about 30 publications including research papers, patents, and IETF RFCs. He is serving as a reviewer in major ACM/IEEE conferences and journals.