Connected Computing Environment

Chapter 5

Multihoming: A Comprehensive Review

Bruno Sousa^*, Kostas Pentikousis^† and Marilia Curado^*,     ^*CISUC, University of Coimbra, Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, Coimbra 3030-290, Portugal,     ^†Huawei Technologies, Carnotstrasse 4, Berlin 10587, Germany,     ^*[e-mail], ^†[e-mail], ^*[e-mail]

Abstract

IP multihoming is a networking concept with a deceptively simple definition in theory. In practice, however, multihoming has proved difficult to implement and optimize for. Moreover, it is a concept, which, once adopted in the core Internet architecture, has significant impact on operation and maintenance. A trivial definition of multihoming would state that an end-node or an end-site has multiple first-hop connections ...