Visible to the public LRVP: Lightweight Real-Time Verification of Intradomain Forwarding Paths

TitleLRVP: Lightweight Real-Time Verification of Intradomain Forwarding Paths
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsChen, Wenlong, Wang, Xiaolin, Wang, Xiaoliang, Xu, Ke, Guo, Sushu
JournalIEEE Systems Journal
Volume16
Pagination6309–6320
ISSN1937-9234
Keywordsautonomous systems, composability, Cyberspace, Encryption, forward error correction, Forward Error Encryption, IP networks, Logic gates, Metrics, network architecture, pubcrawl, Real-time Systems, resilience, Resiliency, Routing, Routing protocols, security
AbstractThe correctness of user traffic forwarding paths is an important goal of trusted transmission. Many network security issues are related to it, i.e., denial-of-service attacks, route hijacking, etc. The current path-aware network architecture can effectively overcome this issue through path verification. At present, the main problems of path verification are high communication and high computation overhead. To this aim, this article proposes a lightweight real-time verification mechanism of intradomain forwarding paths in autonomous systems to achieve a path verification architecture with no communication overhead and low computing overhead. The problem situation is that a packet finally reaches the destination, but its forwarding path is inconsistent with the expected path. The expected path refers to the packet forwarding path determined by the interior gateway protocols. If the actual forwarding path is different from the expected one, it is regarded as an incorrect forwarding path. This article focuses on the most typical intradomain routing environment. A few routers are set as the verification routers to block the traffic with incorrect forwarding paths and raise alerts. Experiments prove that this article effectively solves the problem of path verification and the problem of high communication and computing overhead.
NotesConference Name: IEEE Systems Journal
DOI10.1109/JSYST.2022.3165826
Citation Keychen_lrvp_2022