| 802 | 804 | The rapid growth in the number of computers, mobile devices, smart appliances and other machines connected to the internet today has increased the burden on the network substrate. Such rapid growth also expedited the need to address some of the well-known shortcomings of existing technologies. For instance, existing Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet-based network technologies offer poor support for handling host and user mobility, and cannot effectively handle network dynamics such as large failures pro-actively and seamlessly. As a novel “plug-&-play”, scalable, robust and name-space independent routing paradigm, VIRO is designed with two broad sets of goals: i) to support – with minimal manual configuration – (future) large, dynamic networks which connect tens or hundreds of thousands of diverse devices with rich physical topologies; and ii) to meet the high availability, robustness, mobility, manageability and security requirements of these networks and the services running on top of them. We have implemented and deployed VIRO in GENI using the SDN/OVS platform. Our demo shows how VIRO can seamlessly support host mobility and handle other network dynamics automatically. Besides supporting mobility, it is also easier to configure, manage and secure large enterprise and campus networks using VIRO. |
