Route Bazaar: Automatic Interdomain Contract Negotiation

Monday, May 18, 2015 - 3:00pm-3:30pm
Authors: 

Ignacio Castro, IMDEA Networks Institute, International Computer Science Institute, and Open University of Catalonia; Aurojit Panda, University of California, Berkeley; Barath Raghavan, International Computer Science Institute; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and International Computer Science Institute; Sergey Gorinsky, IMDEA Networks Institute

Abstract: 

While it is widely acknowledged that the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has many flaws, most of the proposed fixes focus solely on improving the stability and security of its path computation. However, because interdomain routing involves contracts between Autonomous Systems (ASes), this paper argues that contractual and routing issues should be tackled jointly. We propose Route Bazaar, a backward-compatible system for flexible Internet connectivity. Inspired by the decentralized construction of trust in cryptocurrencies, Route Bazaar uses a decentralized public ledger and cryptography to provide ASes with automatic means to form, establish, and verify end-to-end connectivity agreements.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {189898,
author = {Ignacio Castro and Aurojit Panda and Barath Raghavan and Scott Shenker and Sergey Gorinsky},
title = {Route Bazaar: Automatic Interdomain Contract Negotiation},
booktitle = {15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XV)},
year = {2015},
address = {Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/castro},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}
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