| | 1 | = Pathlet Routing = |
| | 2 | Pathlet routing is an exciting |
| | 3 | new routing protocol, proposed by Brighten Godfrey, a promising new faculty |
| | 4 | member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pathlet Routing is |
| | 5 | designed to provide more flexibility to both internet providers and users. In a |
| | 6 | nutshell, it's source routing over a virtual topology (http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/pbg/pathlets/) |
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| | 8 | After its initial appearance at the !HotNets workshop in 2008 and its complete |
| | 9 | presentation in SIGCOMM 2009, Brighten and his team are ready to make a real |
| | 10 | deployment and test its premises. Pathlets are an alternative to IP routing and thus, |
| | 11 | it's not feasible to deploy the protocol natively for large scale testing within the |
| | 12 | current Internet architecture where IP is the only option. |
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| | 14 | GENI is the ideal environment where Pathlet routing can be deployed and matured |
| | 15 | before integrating to the global Internet. |
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| | 17 | == Pathlet Routing in GENI == |
| | 18 | The Pathlet team has been experimenting in GENI since 2010. In GEC8 they demoed |
| | 19 | using a small deployment within the GPO lab, while in GEC9 they took part in |
| | 20 | the plenary demostration, showcasing the benefits of Pathlet routing in a continental |
| | 21 | deployment spanning 5 campuses across US. A detailed progress of the Pathlet deployment |
| | 22 | is captured [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEC9_snapshots#PathletDemo here.] |
| | 23 | The setup of the final deployment is captured |
| | 24 | [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEC9_snapshots-Final#PathletDemo here] |
