HIDRA: Hierarchical Inter-Domain Routing Architecture

• Main Author: Clevenger, Bryan
• Format: Others
• Published: DigitalCommons@CalPoly 2010
• Subjects: Digital Communications and Networking; OS and Networks
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/292; https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1307&context=theses

As the Internet continues to expand, the global default-free zone (DFZ) forwarding table has begun to grow faster than hardware can economically keep pace with. Various policies are in place to mitigate this growth rate, but current projections indicate policy alone is inadequate. As such, a number of technical solutions have been proposed. This work builds on many of these proposed solutions, and furthers the debate surrounding the resolution to this problem. It discusses several design decisions necessary to any proposed solution, and based on these tradeoffs it proposes a Hierarchical Inter-Domain Routing Architecture - HIDRA, a comprehensive architecture with a plausible deployment scenario. The architecture uses a locator/identifier split encapsulation scheme to attenuate both the immediate size of the DFZ forwarding table, and the projected growth rate. This solution is based off the usage of an already existing number allocation policy - Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). HIDRA has been deployed to a sandbox network in a proof-of-concept test, yielding promising results.