Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection eXchangeShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: CONEXT'18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING NETWORKING EXPERIMENTS AND TECHNOLOGIES, ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY , 2018, p. 228-240Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Autonomous Systems (ASes) can reach hundreds of networks via Internet eXchange Points (IXPs), allowing improvements in traffic delivery performance and competitiveness. Despite the benefits, any pair of ASes needs first to agree on exchanging traffic. By surveying 100+ network operators, we discovered that most interconnection agreements are established through ad-hoc and lengthy processes heavily influenced by personal relationships and brand image. As such, ASes prefer long-term agreements at the expense of a potential mismatch between actual delivery performance and current traffic dynamics. ASes also miss interconnection opportunities due to trust reasons. To improve wide-area traffic delivery performance, we propose Dynam-IX, a framework that allows operators to build trust cooperatively and implement traffic engineering policies to exploit the rich interconnection opportunities at IXPs quickly. Dynam-IX offers a protocol to automate the interconnection process, an intent abstraction to express interconnection policies, a legal framework to digitally handle contracts, and a distributed tamper-proof ledger to create trust among ASes. We build and evaluate a Dynam-IX prototype and show that an AS can establish tens of agreements per minute with negligible overhead for ASes and IXPs.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY , 2018. p. 228-240
Keywords [en]
Peering, Internet eXchange Point, wide-area traffic delivery
National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-242208DOI: 10.1145/3281411.3281419ISI: 000455383800020Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85060376127ISBN: 978-1-4503-6080-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-242208DiVA, id: diva2:1283195
Conference
CoNEXT 2018 - The 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Heraklion/Crete, Greece, December 4-7 2018
Note
Not duplicate with DiVA 1342961
QC 20190128
QC 20220706
2019-01-282019-01-282022-07-06Bibliographically approved