Integrating IP and Future Networks through a Performance Enhancing Proxy

Abstract

Recent research has been focusing on exploring new network architectures to address the fundamental issues of the current Internet. While plenty of new architectures have emerged over the years, their deployment is facing many challenges. To ease the integration and experimentation of such architectures, and thus potentially advance their gradual deployment, we introduce a proxy called “Performance Enhancing Proxy for Deploying Network Architectures (PEP-DNA)”. By “translating” between TCP/IP and the new architecture, PEP-DNA enables TCP/IP-based applications to gain the benefits of future technologies without having to be redeveloped. We consider two novel architectures to illustrate our proxy usage, the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) and Information-Centric Networking (ICN), but PEP-DNA can be extended to support other architectures. In this demo we walk through realistic scenarios of using PEP-DNA and cover the necessary steps needed for enabling interoperability between TCP/IP applications and a RINA or an ICN network.