A survey on smart collaborative identifier networks

Abstract

The current Internet architecture was designed on the basis of a triple bindings model, which could meet the needs of the early Internet. However, with the tremendous growth of the Internet and the continuous innovations of applications, the triple bindings (namely, control/data binding, resource/ location binding and user/network binding) have given rise to many problems for the Internet, such as scalability, mobility, and security. In order to solve these problems, many network techniques have been developed. Besides, novel future Internet architectures including Information-Centric Networks and Software-Defined Networks have emerged. However, these architectures only partially decouple the triple bindings. To completely separate the triple bindings, Smart Collaborative Identifier Networks (SINET) is proposed. There have been many research efforts on SINET, which built the foundation of SINET being a promising future Internet. In this paper, we comprehensively introduce SINET and these related research works. We start by introducing the motivation for SINET, explain its fundamental concepts and how it can make a difference. Next, we present in details the design principles of every layer in SINET, explaining how it can decouple the triple bindings and solve the problems of the current Internet. Finally, we discuss the state-of-the-art challenges in SINET. We investigate the ongoing research works and commercial products in SINET, with aspects such as scalability, mobility, security and reliability.