Prototype and testing report of a multi-identifier system for reconfigurable network architecture under co-governing
Hui Li, Yongxiang HAN, Gengxin LI, Han Wang, Sai Lv, Junfeng MA, Xinwei Liu, Jianming Que, Chonghui Ning, Jiaxing SONG, Peng Yi, Jiangxing WU, Weihao YANG, Yijun Liu, Ji Liu, Jiawei HU, Wei Ming Liang, Jiansen HUANG, Rui chao Xu, Ke Xu · Scientia Sinica Informationis · 2019
Even though the internet has become an essential infrastructure of modern society, the centralized domain name system (DNS) is unable to provide high-quality services and secure management and controlling. To face this challenge, we have proposed a reconfigurable multi-identifier network architecture and have developed a prototype of the multi-identifier system. We optimized network security using consortium blockchain, improved forwarding speed using HPT for FIB, and enhanced scalability through a tunnel algorithm. Experiments and tests of this prototype on the network of the two largest telecommunication service providers in China demonstrate that the system is considerably robust to support real-world traffic. Moreover, it can be applied to sovereign networks and other private networks with multiple identifiers, which may become a Chinese solution of network security to the world.