Routing over QUIC: Bringing transport innovations to routing protocols

Thomas Wirtgen , Nicolas Rybowski , Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure

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Abstract

By combining the security features of TLS with the reliability of TCP, QUIC opens new possibilities for many applications. We demonstrate the benefits that QUIC brings for routing protocols. Current Internet routing protocols use insecure transport protocols. BGP uses TCP possibly with authentication. OSPF uses its own transport protocol above plain IP. We design and implement a library that allows to replace the transport protocols used by BGP and OSPF with QUIC. We apply this library to the BIRD routing daemon and report preliminary results.

Publication Details

Publication Type
poster
Publication Date
April 2023
Published In
Poster session of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23' Poster Session)
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.48550/arXiv.2304.02992

BibTeX Citation

@poster{Wirtgen2023,
	title        = {Routing over QUIC: Bringing transport innovations to routing protocols},
	author       = {Thomas Wirtgen and Nicolas Rybowski and Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure},
	year         = 2023,
	month        = apr,
	booktitle    = {Poster session of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation ({NSDI} 23' Poster Session)},
	location     = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
	doi          = {10.48550/arXiv.2304.02992},
	url          = {http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/274093},
	abstract     = {By combining the security features of TLS with the reliability of TCP, QUIC opens new possibilities for many applications. We demonstrate the benefits that QUIC brings for routing protocols. Current Internet routing protocols use insecure transport protocols. BGP uses TCP possibly with authentication. OSPF uses its own transport protocol above plain IP. We design and implement a library that allows to replace the transport protocols used by BGP and OSPF with QUIC. We apply this library to the BIRD routing daemon and report preliminary results.},
	affiliation  = {UCL - SST/ICTM/INGI - Pôle en ingénierie informatique},
	archiveprefix = {arXiv},
	eprint       = {2304.02992},
	groups       = {Posters},
	keywords     = {Distributed Routing, Routing Transport, QUIC, Secure Routing Transport, BGP over QUIC, OSPF over QUIC, Routing, BGP, OSPF},
	primaryclass = {cs.NI}
}

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