A Framework for Incremental Deployment Strategies for Router-Assisted Services

— Incremental deployment of a new network service or protocol is typically a hard problem, especially when it has to be deployed in the routers. First, an incrementally deployable protocol is needed. Second, a study of the performance impact of incremental deployment should be carried out to evaluate deployment strategies. Choosing the wrong strategy can be disastrous, as it may inhibit reaping the benefits of an otherwise robust service, and prevent widespread adoption. Unfortunately, to date there has been no systematic evaluation of incremental deployment for such services. Our research work is focused on the second aspect, namely the performance impact of incremental deployment of router-assisted services. We take the first step to define a framework for evaluating incrementally deployable services, which consists of three parts: (a) selection and classification of deployment strategies; (b) definition of performance metrics; and (c) systematic evaluation of deployment strat...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Xinming He, Christos Papadopoulos, Pavlin Radoslavov
• Keywords: Communications, Deployment Strategies, Incremental Deployment, INFOCOM 2003, Systematic Evaluation