Design and Implementation of IPv6 Anycast Routing Protocol: PIA-SM

Today, the use of anycast address is quite limited. One of the reasons is because there is no routing protocol providing a global anycasting service. In this paper we design and implement a new anycast routing protocol called PIA-SM (Protocol Independent Anycast - Sparse Mode). We focus on PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode), which is one of multicast routing protocols available now, to develop an anycast routing protocol because anycast and multicast have many similar properties. We modified PIM-SM based on differences between multicast and anycast. We next describe technical issues to be solved on the implementation of PIA-SM. We also show some experimental results to demonstrate PIA-SM, and verify that PIA-SM enables routers to forward an anycast packet to an appropriate node of multiple candidate nodes. Key words IPv6 (Interenet Protocol version 6), Anycast, Routing Protocol, PIA-SM (Protocol Independent Anycast - Sparse Mode) — 1 — 

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Satoshi Matsunaga, Shingo Ata, Hiroshi Kitamura, Masayuki Murata
• Keywords: AINA 2005, Anycast, Anycast Routing Protocol, Computer Networks, Routing Protocol