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IPP Routing Architecture

Bolla, Damiano (1994) IPP Routing Architecture. Technical report. versity of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (KAR id:21167)

Abstract

This paper describes the structure of the IPP routing architecture. IPP is an evolution of the TCP-IP protocol. The main advantage of IPP is the variable length addressing scheme. An IPP address can be fifteen bytes long and is optimised for local area networks. The logical structure of the address is very similar to IP, with the main difference that each byte specifies a subnet, apart from the last byte, that indicates a host. Routing speed is maximized by the fact that all routing tables are accessed using a direct lookup method. The size of the routing tables within a router is fixed and small. The above two points allow the construction of very cheap and fast routers. This routing architecture supports broadcast, multicast and real time data. It uses different routing priorities for each type of service. This results in a better management of network links. For normal network traffic the link usage is maximised by automatically load balancing the usage of available links. A working router can be found in the part of the document describing the tests done on this architecture. IPP aims to keep all the other qualities of IP, e.g., the method used to manage flow control, resequencing, etc. The only things that change are the structure of an address, the routing table and routing functions.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Technical report)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 12 Aug 2009 19:54 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21167 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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