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Internet of Threads (IoTh)

what

Processes and even threads can be the endpoints of Internet connections.

In other words IP addresses should be given to processes, because they are addressing services.

why

Because people are interested in services, it does not matter which computer is currently hosting that service.

Using IP addresses assigned to hardware network controllers is as obsolete as using telephone fixed lines. Portable phones are very convenient because they address people, fixed lines point to geographical places.

how

processes (or groups of processes) must have their own networking support. There are two methods: kernel provided namespaces or networking stacks implemented as user-space libraries.

where

Several projects in VirtualSquare implement the idea of IoTh:

  • libioth a convenient API for IoTh. Stack implementations can be loaded as plug-ins. libioth includes also a plugin for vdestack

  • picoxnet a TCP-IP stack for the Internet of Threads based on picoTCP-ng.

  • ioth_picox The picoxnet plug-in module for libioth

  • iothconf Internet of Threads (IoTh) stack configuration made easy peasy

  • iothdns Name Resolution support for the Internet of Threads.

  • iothnamed iothnamed is a DNS server/forwarder/cache for the Internet of Threads supporting hash based IPv6 addresses and OTIP, i.e. one time IP.

  • namedhcp A dhcpv6 server (and a dhcpv4 server) using the FQDN option (fully qualified domain name) to query the DNS for the address to assign. (It can be used with iothnamed for hash based addresses and OTIP).

  • otip-utils One Time IP address (OTIP) utilities: otip_rproxy (a reverse proxy to otip-ize tcp and udp servers) and otipaddr (a simple command to compute the current otip address).

  • iothradvd t is a router advertisement deamon library. The server runs as a thread.

  • vdens: create namespaces where services can have their own IP addresses

  • libvdestack: use a networking thread to provide a process with its own networking support (using kernel namespaces)

references:

Renzo Davoli, Internet of Threads: Processes as Internet Nodes, in International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, 2014, 1-2, pp. 17 - 28