Social-IoT Enabled Identifier/Locator Splitting: Concept, Architecture, and Performance Evaluation

The Identifier/Locator Splitting (ILS) paradigm has been proposed in the future Internet research arena to address the semantic overload of IP addresses. In this paper the integration of the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) concept into ILS solutions is investigated. Indeed, SIoT has been recently argued as a promising approach to improve the performance of identifier-to-locator mapping procedures. More specifically, we describe the general approach, propose an architecture and show some preliminary performance results obtained through simulations. The proposed SIoT-enabled ILS architecture relies on distributed repositories of virtual counterparts of entities that store Friendship Tables specifically introduced to enable the mapping information to be retrieved by surfing the social graph. Achieved results in a smart campus scenario show that the proposed approach achieves better performance, in terms of number of hops, than a mapping solution based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHT).

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