LMAP: A protocol to automate the setup of logical networks

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Publikationsdatum
2002-08
Sprache
English
Author
Scandariato, Riccardo 
Risso, Fulvio 
Lago, Patricia 
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/14428
First published in
IEEE International Conference on Networks 
Start Page
461
End Page
466
Article Number
1033354
Citation
IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON: Towards network superiority: 1033354, 461-466 (2002-12-01)
Contribution to Conference
10th IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON 2002 
Publisher DOI
10.1109/ICON.2002.1033354
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84890443869
Publisher
IEEE
This paper presents the Logical Membership Announcement Protocol (LMAP), a new signaling protocol that handles the construction of logical topologies (e.g. overlay networks) in a straightforward way. LMAP defines both a way to disseminate membership information into the network and a way to determine the adjacencies that must be established between members to create the logical topology. LMAP represents a building block for upper-layer distributed services (e.g. virtual private networks, BGP peering, and more) that rely on a logical topology to achieve their functionality. Moreover, appropriate protocol extensions can be used to transport information that is meaningful only to the service application. This paper presents the key points behind LMAP, it describes how LMAP works, it makes a comparison with other proposals, and it shows some preliminary results proving its robustness and its excellent scalability.
DDC Class
004: Informatik