A normalized average cost model for ID/LOC separation networks

The current Internet has several known challenges, such as mobility, multihoming, routing scalability, traffic engineering, etc. due to the overloaded semantics of IP address, i.e. the IP address is used as a node identifier (ID) as well as a node locator (LOC). Thus, the research community has proposed the ID/LOC separation scheme. In this paper, we propose a normalized average cost model to analyze the ID/LOC separation networks assuming a local caching mechanism under a single source-destination model. We analyze the model assuming the general packet arrival process and the general sojourn time for destination, respectively to show the impact of the packet arrival process and the mobility pattern of the destination on the probability that a packet is delivered to the correct location of the destination.