PIA-SM: multicast based IPv6 anycast routing protocol. (9th May 2006)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Matsunaga, Satoshi; Ata, Shingo; Kitamura, Hiroshi; Murata, Masayuki
• Is Part Of: International journal of internet protocol technology. Volume 1:Number 3(2006)
• Page Start: 189
• Page End: 197
• Publication Date: 2006-05-09
• Subjects: IPv6 -- Internet Protocol version 6 -- anycast routing protocols -- multicast routing protocols -- PIA-SM -- Protocol Independent Anycast – Sparse Mode; File Transfer Protocol (Computer network protocol) -- Periodicals; Multicasting (Computer networks) -- Periodicals; 004.678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8209

Abstract

Today, the use of anycast address is quite limited. One of the reasons is that there is no routing protocol providing a global anycasting service. In this paper we design and implement a new anycast routing protocol called PIA-SM (Protocol Independent Anycast – Sparse Mode). We focus on PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Sparse Mode), which is one of multicast routing protocols available now, to develop an anycast routing protocol, because anycast and multicast have many similar properties. We modified PIM-SM based on differences between multicast and anycast. We next describe the technical issues to be solved in the implementation of PIA-SM. We also show some experimental results to demonstrate PIA-SM, and verify that PIA-SM enables routers to forward an anycast packet to an appropriate node of multiple candidate nodes.