PACKET COMMUNICATION METHOD USING NODE IDENTIFIER AND LOCATOR

摘要

A transmission source node and a transmission destination node identified by node identifiers acquire their locators and the mapping of the node identifiers and the locators prior to communication and are transmitted after the address of a packet identified by the node identifiers is rewritten by the locators at the time of the communication. Because the role of the node identifiers and the locators is separated, the communication method is suitable for multi-forming. Furthermore, the communication method makes it possible to reduce the amount of global address usage, thus providing a solution of an address exhaustion problem.