Region Scope-Specific Outside-Scope Identifier Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The growing Internet poses challenges due to fully allocated global IP address space, leading to issues like network latency and inefficiencies in routing, as current distinctions between names, addresses, and routes are inadequate.
Innovation Solution
Implementing methods and systems for routing based on a path-based protocol address, which involves identifying network path information from packet headers and using region scope-specific outside-scope identifiers to select appropriate path segments for data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If global IP address space is used for routing, then network coverage is extensive, but address space is fully allocated and routing efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the global IP address space into region-specific subspaces, where each region maintains its own identifier space. This segmentation allows efficient routing within each region without requiring global address exhaustion, resolving the contradiction between extensive network coverage and routing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
Each region is assigned a unique region scope-specific outside-scope identifier that provides local quality identification. This allows routing decisions to be made based on local region characteristics and identifiers rather than relying on fully allocated global addresses, improving routing efficiency while maintaining broad network coverage.
2Device complexity
If traditional name-address-route distinctions are maintained, then protocol simplicity is preserved, but routing performance deteriorates under network growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the traditional name-address-route distinctions into a unified path-based addressing model. By combining these elements into a single integrated approach using region scope-specific identifiers, the system maintains protocol simplicity while achieving superior routing performance under network growth conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The region scope-specific outside-scope identifier serves multiple functions simultaneously: it identifies the destination region, provides routing information, and maintains address space efficiency. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by eliminating the need for separate name-address-route mechanisms while improving routing performance.
3Productivity
If region scope-specific outside-scope identifiers are introduced, then routing efficiency is improved, but identifier space management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the region identification function from the global IP address space and creates separate region scope-specific identifier spaces. This extraction simplifies identifier space management by isolating region-specific routing information from global address management, thereby improving routing efficiency without proportionally increasing management complexity.
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AI summary
In various embodiments, an apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable media, and a method are provided, involving a capability to: receive an indication of a receipt of a first packet that is specified according to an Internet Protocol (IP) network protocol; identify, from a header of the first packet, network path information configured for use in identifying a plurality of path segment identifiers including a region scope-specific outside-scope identifier that: is in an identifier space specific to at least the current node, does not include a network interface identifier portion specified by the IP network protocol for identifying any network interface of any node, and identifies, for at least the current node, a second region of the network; and cause transmission, based on the region scope-specific outside-scope identifier of the network path information, of first data, along with at least one of the plurality path segment identifiers, from the current node to a path node.