Showing papers by "Thomas Clausen published in 2017"
TL;DR: Several additional components for extending LOADng are studied: support for smart route requests and expanding ring search, an extension permitting maintaining collection trees, a fast rerouting extension, and a general framework is also proposed to secure the routing protocol.
49 citations
05 Jun 2017
TL;DR: This paper introduces a load-balancer running exclusively within the IP forwarding plane, i.e. in an application protocol agnostic fashion - yet which still provides application-awareness and makes real-time, decentralized decisions.
Abstract: Network load-balancers generally either do not take application state into account, or do so at the cost of a centralized monitoring system. This paper introduces a load-balancer running exclusively within the IP forwarding plane, i.e. in an application protocol agnostic fashion - yet which still provides application-awareness and makes real-time, decentralized decisions. To that end, IPv6 Segment Routing is used to direct data packets from a new flow through a chain of candidate servers, until one decides to accept the connection, based on its local state. This way, applications themselves naturally decide on how to share incoming connections, while incurring minimal network overhead, and no out-of-band signaling. Tests on different workloads - including realistic workloads such as replaying actual Wikipedia access traffic towards a set of replica Wikipedia instances - show significant performance benefits, in terms of shorter response times, when compared to a traditional random load-balancer.
18 citations
11 Jan 2017
TL;DR: This document analyzes common security threats to the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2) and describes their potential impacts on Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) operations and which of these security vulnerabilities can be mitigated when using the mandatory-to-implement security mechanisms for OLSRv2.
Abstract: This document analyzes common security threats to the Optimized Link
State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2) and describes their
potential impacts on Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) operations. It also
analyzes which of these security vulnerabilities can be mitigated when
using the mandatory-to-implement security mechanisms for OLSRv2 and
how the vulnerabilities are mitigated.
4 citations