H. Balakrishnan, "Interdomain Internet Routing," MIT Lecture Notes, (January 2009).

Summary

Connectivity between different autonomous systems (ASes) with heterogeneous characteristics was the primary objective while designing the Internet. Interdomain routing enables end-to-end communication and global connectivity in a distributed manner through the dissemination of reachability information among the ASes/ISPs in the Internet. This lecture provides … Continue Reading ››

R. Mahajan, D. Wetherall, T. Anderson, "Understanding BGP Misconfiguration," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2002).

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Misconfigurations in BGP tables result in excessive routing load, connectivity disruption, and policy violation. However, misconfigurations are widely prevalent in the Internet without any systematic study of their characteristics. This paper presents an empirical study of the BGP misconfigurations with an … Continue Reading ››

Citation: D. D. Clark, "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 1988). [ACM]

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This paper summarizes the rationale behind the design choices made for the Internet (initiated by DARPA) and explains how the Internet, its protocols, and its underlying mechanisms ended up being the way they were in 1988. … Continue Reading ››

Citation: J. H. Saltzer, D. P. Reeed, D. D. Clark, "End-to-End Arguments in System Design," 2nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Paris, (April 1981), pp. 509-512. [PDF]

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The crux of the end-to-end argument is that in most cases endpoints (e.g., applications) know best what they need, and the underlying system should provide only … Continue Reading ››