• An analysis of the applicability of blockchain to secure IP addresses allocation, delegation and bindings 

      Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Ermagan, Vina; Maino, Fabio; Vegoda, Leo; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2018-06-29)
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      This document analyzes how blockchain technology can be used to secure the allocation, delegation and binding to topological information of the IP address space. The main outcomes of the analysis are that blockchain is ...
    • Distributed access control with blockchain 

      Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Subirà Nieto, Jordi; López Brescó, Albert; Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Ermagan, Vina; Maino, Fabio; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2019)
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      The specification and enforcement of network-wide policies in a single administrative domain is common in today's networks and considered as already resolved. However, this is not the case for multi-administrative domains, ...
    • Global state, local decisions: Decentralized NFV for ISPs via enhanced SDN 

      Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Ermagan, Vina; Noy, Ariel; Sahai, Ajay; Kaempfer, Gideon; Barkai, Sharon; Maino, Fabio; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2017-04-14)
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      The network functions virtualization paradigm is rapidly gaining interest among Internet service providers. However, the transition to this paradigm on ISP networks comes with a unique set of challenges: legacy equipment ...
    • Knowledge-defined networking 

      Mestres Sugrañes, Albert; Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Carner Marsal, Josep; Barlet Ros, Pere; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Sole, Marc; Muntés Mulero, Victor; Meyer, David; Barkai, Sharon; Hibbett, Mike J.; Estrada, Giovani; Coras, Florin-Tudorel; Ermagan, Vina; Latapie, Hugo; Cassar, Chris; Evans, John; Walrand, Jean; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2017-07-01)
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      The research community has considered in the past the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to control and operate networks. A notable example is the Knowledge Plane proposed by D.Clark et al. However, ...
    • LISP-MN: mobile networking through LISP 

      Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Lorand, Jakab; Portoles Comeras, Marc; Ermagan, Vina; Natarajan, Preethi; Maino, Fabio; Meyer, David; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2013-05)
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      ThecurrentInternetarchitecturewasnotdesignedtoeasilyaccommodatemobil- ity because IP addresses are used both to identify and locate hosts. The Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) decouples them by considering ...
    • LISP: a southbound SDN protocol? 

      Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Portoles Comeras, Marc; Ermagan, Vina; Lewis, Darrel; Farinacci, Dino; Maino, Fabio; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2015-07-01)
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      The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) splits current IP addresses overlapping semantics of identity and location into two separate namespaces. Since its inception the protocol has gained considerable attention from ...
    • Programmable overlays via OpenOverlayRouter 

      Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Coras, Florin-Tudorel; López Brescó, Albert; Lorand, Jakab; Portoles Comeras, Marc; Natarajan, Preethi; Meyer, David; Farinacci, Dino; Maino, Fabio; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto; Ermagan, Vina (2017-06-01)
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      Among the different options to instantiate overlays, the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) [7] has gained significant traction among industry and academia [5], [6], [8]–[11], [14], [15]. Interestingly, LISP offers a ...