Blink: Fast Connectivity Recovery Entirely in the Data Plane
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 14612
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’19)
- First page
- 161
- Volume
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- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0000-0000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 4
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Published at a top conference in networking (NSDI), this paper proposes a new system to reduce Internet connectivity disruptions, a 20-year-old problem which is still of critical importance in the current Internet. The system is one of the first to leverage new possibilities of next-generation (programmable) switches for monitoring data packets in real time and at fine grain. Simulations based on real traffic traces show that for a large fraction of hardware failures, our system would reduce Internet downtime from the minutes needed by current protocols to seconds. We have been contacted by operators interested in the approach.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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