RT Journal Article
T1 Design and implementation of InBlock, a distributed IP address registration system
A1 García Martínez, Alberto
A1 Angieri, Stefano
A1 Liu, Bingyang
A1 Yang, Fei
A1 Bagnulo Braun, Marcelo Gabriel
AB The current mechanism to secure Border Gateway Protocol relies on the resource public key infrastructure (RPKI) for route origin authorization. The RPKI implements a hierarchical model that intrinsically makes lower layers in the hierarchy susceptible to errors and abuses from entities placed in higher layers. In this article, we present InBlock, a distributed autonomous organization that provides decentralized management of IP addresses based on blockchain, embedding an alternative trust model to the hierarchical one currently implemented by the RPKI. By leveraging on blockchain technology, InBlock requires consensus among the involved parties to change existent prefix allocation information. InBlock also fulfills the same objectives as the current IP address allocation system, i.e., uniqueness, fairness, conservation, aggregation, registration, and minimized overhead. InBlock is implemented as a set of blockchain smart contracts in Ethereum, performing all the functions needed for the management of a global pool of addresses without human intervention. Any entity may request an allocation of addresses to the InBlock registry by solely performing a (crypto) currency transfer to the InBlock. We describe our InBlock implementation and we perform several experiments to show that it enables fast address registering and incurs in very low management costs.
PB IEEE
SN 1932-8184
YR 2021
FD 2021-09-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33263
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33263
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 27 jul. 2024