Secure And Policy Compliant Source Routing

NETWORK operators and academic researchers alike recognize that today's wide-area Internet routing does not realize the full potential of the existing network infrastructure in terms of performance, reliability, or flexibility. While a number of techniques for intelligent, source-controlled path selection have been proposed to improve end-to-end performance, reliability, and flexibility, they have proven problematic to deploy due to concerns about security and network instability. We attempt to address these issues in developing a scalable, authenticated, policy-compliant, wide-area source routing protocol.