FLIP: an Internet protocol for flat labels
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computer Networks and Communications, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
- Keywords
- ROFL, Dynamo, Routing on identities, Scalable compact routing, Network layer, VRR, Flat Labels, Crypto-currencies, Disco, Internet architectures
- Copyright
- © 2016 Bembo
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. FLIP: an Internet protocol for flat labels. PeerJ PrePrints 4:e1749v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1749v1
Abstract
In recent years the increasingly frequent use of the Web service, the advent of the cloud computing, the exponential growing of mobile devices with the introduction of pervasive and ubiquitous computing and the emergence of extreme distributed systems have brought to light the problem of the no longer adequate distribution of data packets over Internet and the related IP protocol issues. This paper promotes flat labels as a real alternative to IP addresses for a future Internet architecture and proposes FLIP as first network layer protocol for flat labels. Among several features absolutely not existing in IP protocol, FLIP has a native support for crypto-currencies.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints. This is the complete version of the article submitted to a peer reviewed journal.