Distributed Compact Routing

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• Routes over arbitrary names rather than location-dependent addresses (hierarchy independent)
• Disco: Distributed Compact Routing
  • Flexible mobility
  • Flexible multi-homing
  • Easier management

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Why Disco

For general networks, the common scaling technique is hierarchy: routing is performed over high-level aggregate units until it reaches the destination's unit, at which point routing proceeds at a finer granularity. For example, the Internet routes at the level of IP prefixes to a destination domain, and then over an intra-domain routing protocol to a subnet.

Problem with Hierarchy

• First, it can have arbitrarily high stretch, defi ned as the ratio of route length to the shortest path length. Simultaneously guaranteeing scalability and low stretch on arbitrary networks is a nontrivial problem which no deployed routing protocols achieve.
• Location dependent addressing complicating mobility, management and multi-homing

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To build state

• Pick random neighbors in G(t) to build overlay
• Gossip in overlay to send address to n^{1/2 nodes}

To route from s to t

• Check V(s). If t isn’t there, then...
• w = node in both V(t) and G(t)
• Route to w and from there to t via NDDisco: provable stretch ≤ 7
• Subsequent packets follow NDDisco: stretch ≤ 3