Addressing reality: an architectural response to real-world demands on the evolving Internet
A system as complex as the Internet can only be designed effectively if it is based on a core set of design principles, or tenets, that identify points in the architecture where there must be common understanding and agreement. The tenets of the ...
Plutarch: an argument for network pluralism
It is widely accepted that the current Internet architecture is insufficient for the future: problems such as address space scarcity, mobility and non-universal connectivity are already with us, and stand to be exacerbated by the explosion of wireless, ...
Designing for scale and differentiation
Naïve pictures of the Internet frequently portray a small collection of hosts or LAN's connected by a "cloud" of connectivity. The truth is more complex. The IP-level structure of the Internet is composed from a large number of constituent networks, ...
BANANAS: an evolutionary framework for explicit and multipath routing in the internet
Today the Internet offers a single path between end-systems even though it intrinsically has a large multiplicity of paths. This paper proposes an evolutionary architectural framework "BANANAS" aimed at simplifying the introduction of multipath routing ...
Towards a logic for wide-area Internet routing
Interdomain routing is a massive distributed computing task that propagates topological information for global reachability. Today's interdomain routing protocol, BGP4, is exceedingly complex because the wide variety of goals that it must meet---...
NIRA: a new Internet routing architecture
This paper presents the design of a new Internet routing architecture (NIRA). In today's Internet, users can pick their own ISPs, but once the packets have entered the network, the users have no control over the overall routes their packets take. NIRA ...
FARA: reorganizing the addressing architecture
sloppy This paper describes FARA, a new organization of, network architecture concepts. FARA (Forwarding directive, Association, and Rendezvous Architecture) defines an abstract model with considerable generality and flexibility, based upon the ...
The case for TCP/IP puzzles
Since the Morris worm was unleashed in 1988, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks via worms and viruses have continued to periodically disrupt the Internet. Client puzzles have been proposed as one mechanism for protecting protocols against ...
An end-to-end approach to globally scalable programmable networking
The three fundamental resources underlying Information Technology are bandwidth, storage, and computation. The goal of wide area infrastructure is to provision these resources to enable applications within a community. The end-to-end principles provide ...
