This paper proposes an architecture that enables a group of nodes to provide communication in case of failures in the underlying Internet paths. Group of nodes in RON have an application-level protocol for communicating with the other nodes in RON. The protocol ensures that high-speed recovery of path failures, low-latency, and improved loss rate and throughput exist among the nodes participating in the RON.
RON was designed to improve the underlying Internet routing protocols (BGP). BGP can take a long time to converge after link failure. RON aids in recovering from outages and performance issues in seconds. Other goals of RON are tighter integration of routing and path selection with the application and expressive policy routing.
I liked that the authors are proposing an architecture to solve the inherent problem of BGP convergence. Although there are issues that still remain undressed. These include machines behind NAT and violation of BGP policies. The authors discuss these problems as well. The evaluation results are very good but with such techniques one is never sure how they will work in real large scale deployment. Also, it would have been nice see how RON would work in case of congestion, that is how tolerant is RON itself? One more concern I have is related to RONs pushing too aggressively to find alternate routes. This can cause a lot of traffic and be very expensive.
I would recommend keeping this paper because it can stir up a very good discussion in the class regarding the design decisions and their pros and cons.
RON was designed to improve the underlying Internet routing protocols (BGP). BGP can take a long time to converge after link failure. RON aids in recovering from outages and performance issues in seconds. Other goals of RON are tighter integration of routing and path selection with the application and expressive policy routing.
I liked that the authors are proposing an architecture to solve the inherent problem of BGP convergence. Although there are issues that still remain undressed. These include machines behind NAT and violation of BGP policies. The authors discuss these problems as well. The evaluation results are very good but with such techniques one is never sure how they will work in real large scale deployment. Also, it would have been nice see how RON would work in case of congestion, that is how tolerant is RON itself? One more concern I have is related to RONs pushing too aggressively to find alternate routes. This can cause a lot of traffic and be very expensive.
I would recommend keeping this paper because it can stir up a very good discussion in the class regarding the design decisions and their pros and cons.
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