Abstract: A new Emergency Internet Bypass Lane (EIBL) protocol was developed and tested over the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) testbeds for its timely and reliable data delivery with quick recovery on network component failures. The EIBL protocol prescribes a technique that captures the structural and connectivity information among sets of routers in a network, where the sets were defined based on their specific tasks. The connectivity information is captured in labels, and multiple labels are assigned to routers to provide multiple paths for routing data packets. The multiple paths in readiness also facilitates quick recovery on link/device failures. The EIBL protocol operates below the Internet Protocol (IP). When deployed in a network, the EIBL protocol will capture incoming IP packets encapsulate them in special EIBL headers and deliver to the destination router. The protocol can be invoked during an emergency for expedited information transfer between the emergency incident scene, the Emergency Office of Management and other stakeholders. In this article, the performance of the EIBL protocol is compared with Open Shortest Path First and Border Gateway Protocol the two commonly used routing protocols by IP, for identical topologies on the GENI testbed.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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