Route Bazaar: Automatic Interdomain Contract Negotiation

8 Apr
2015

Ignacio Castro, IMDEA Networks Institute and Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

In-house Presentation

While some see in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) a routing ambrosia to be enshrined, others perceive a basis of serious Internet connectivity limitations. Because the interdomain routing protocol realizes contracts between Autonomous Systems (ASes), this paper argues that contractual and routing issues need to be tackled jointly to overcome the connectivity limitations. 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.

About Ignacio Castro

Ignacio Castro received his Master degree in Economics from the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is currently researching in different aspects of networked economies and the economics of the Internet structure.

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This event will be conducted in English

 

  • Location: Sala 1.1/2 IMDEA Networks Institute, Avda. del Mar Mediterráneo 22, 28918 Leganés – Madrid

  • Organization: NETCOM Research Group (Telematics Engineering Department, UC3M); IMDEA Networks Institute
  • Time: 01:00 pm
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