SANA: A Service-Aware Naming Architecture for future Internet

Abstract

Due to the increasingly diverse environment expected for users and the proliferation of mobile and wireless terminals in the future Internet, special attention should be paid to person-to-person communications and multi-device support in future naming schemes' design. In this paper, we present a new naming proposal that we call Service-Aware Naming Architecture (SANA). Our solution is built around three key points. First, we challenge the traditional Identifier/Locator split paradigm by getting rid of terminals' identifiers and promoting users and services identification. Second, we provide a transparent multi-device support to the network. And finally, we make user's session switching between different terminals agnostic to applications and networks.