Increasing network resilience through edge diversity in NEBULA

  • Authors:
  • Matvey Arye;Robert Kiefer;Kyle Super;Erik Nordström;Michael J. Freedman;Eric Keller;Tom Rondeau;Jonathan M. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Princeton University;Computer Science Department, Princeton University;Computer & Information Science Department, University of Pennsylvania;Computer Science Department, Princeton University;Computer Science Department, Princeton University;Electrical, Computer, & Energy Engineering Department, University of Colorado;Computer & Information Science Department, University of Pennsylvania;Computer & Information Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The primary focus of the NEBULA Future Internet Architecture is to provide resilient networking for the emerging cloud computing model. One of the attractions of cloud computing is its support for online services and data storage by thin clients such as mobile devices. This paper describes two components of NEBULA's edge network technology, Serval and CRYSTAL. Serval provides a new layer 3.5 service abstraction that naturally supports mobility, multi-homing, and multi-path transport, while CRYSTAL is a new virtualization scheme for software radios that makes it easier to expose greater network diversity at the network edge.