Thursday, November 6, 2008

Reading on "i3"

summary: The paper describes the Internet indirection infrastructure(i3) which offers a rendezvous-based communication abstraction. Basically, i3 decouples the act of sending from the act of receiving through using other identifier mechanism. Some communication primitives to support mobility, multicast and anycast are provided by i3. To demonstrate the feasibility of i3, the authors built an overlay network based on the Chord lookup system.