Reaping the Benefits of IPv6 Segment Routing

PhD Thesis · 2017

Abstract

Segment Routing (SR) is a source routing paradigm. It enables traffic sources to arbitrarily specify the path of their packets within a network. This contrasts with classical IP routing where packets are forwarded, hop-by-hop, along a shortest path. Segment Routing allows to deviate from that shortest path by attaching a list of instructions to each packet. These instructions are called segments. Each segment can steer packets through a network node, link, or virtual function. For each packet, the full list of segments is imposed at the ingress edge of the network. All core routers do not need to maintain this additional state. As such, the SR architecture enables scalable and fine-grained traffic engineering, and more efficient network management and troubleshooting. In this thesis, we focus on SRv6, the IPv6 version of Segment Routing.

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David Lebrun

Cite (BibTeX)

@phdthesis {D17,
	title = {Reaping the Benefits of IPv6 Segment Routing},
	school = {UCLouvain / ICTEAM / EPL},
	author = {David Lebrun},
	year = {2017},
	month = {October},
}