An ISP-friendly multiple IPv6 addresses configuration scheme

Abstract

Internet is becoming an indispensible infrastructure of essential media, which makes a great burden for ISP's security and traffic management. Especially the situation will be much more serious in NGI (the Next-Generation Internet) because of its innumerable users, mobile device, information appliances (IA) and networked sensors etc with 128-bit IPv6 address. For the reason of lacking scalability, ISP's current security and traffic management scheme will be unavailable in NGI environment unless novel architecture and protocol proposed. In this paper, we studied the problem ISP faced and introduced an IPv6-based multiple addresses configuration scheme to ease ISP's traffic management in NGI environment. In the scheme, each type of service has its own source IPv6 address so that ISP can easily deploy security and traffic management policy with scalability. At the same time, QoS is improved and bandwidth is saved. In addition, some key technologies of the scheme are proposed in detail for future research activities focus on.