Scalability Analysis of the TurfNet Internetworking Architecture

TurfNet is an internetworking architecture that enables communication among autonomous and heterogeneous network domains. The architecture uses a global identity namespace and does not require global addressing or a common internetworking protocol. It integrates the new concept of dynamic network composition with other recent architectural concepts, such as decoupling locators from identifiers. This paper analyzes whether the TurfNet naming and interdomain routing mechanisms can scale to networks of the size of the global Internet. To the authors´ knowledge, this is one of the first scalability analyses of any next-generation internetworking proposal based on today´s Internet AS topology. It adapts existing research results on the topology of the Internet´s autonomous system graph and related results that quantify typical traffic patterns to construct a realistic model of an Internet-like TurfNet.