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Wirz, Francois
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Gartner, Marten
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van Bommel, Jelte
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Moghadam, Elham Ehsani
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Cimaszewski, Grace H.
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He, Anxiao
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Zhang, Yizhe
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Birge-Lee, Henry
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Kottmann, Felix
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Krahenbuhl, Cyrill
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Kwon, Jonghoon
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Mavromati, Kyveli
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Wang, Liang
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Bertolo, Daniel
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Canini, Marco
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Cho, Buseung
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Ferreira, Ronaldo A.
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Green, Simon Peter
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Hausheer, David
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Hur, Junbeom
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Jia, Xiaohua
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Lee, Heejo
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Mittal, Prateek
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Oaiya, Omo
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Park, Chanjin
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Perrig, Adrian
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Sobieski, Jerry
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Sun, Yixin
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Wang, Cong
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Wierenga, Klaas
Total Authors: 30
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2025 ACM SIGCOMM 2025 CONFERENCE, SIGCOMM 2025; v. N/A, p. 22-pg., 2025-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
The SCION Next-Generation Network (NGN) architecture has expanded steadily since 2017, with today 20+ ISPs offering SCION connectivity. In production, IP-to-SCION-to-IP translation by SCIONIP-Gateways (SIGs) is used, such that applications are unaware of the NGN communication. To accelerate innovation and deployments, our aim is to increase the number of native SCION use cases, where the application is fully SCION-aware and optimizes communication across all path choices offered by the network. We set out to achieve two core objectives: (1) facilitating simple native connectivity for applications, and (2) enhancing the scalability of SCION deployment at academic sites. With these goals in mind, we built the SCION Education, Research, and Academic (SCIERA) network infrastructure. This paper presents key lessons learned from the SCIERA deployment, which we anticipate will offer actionable insights to researchers, network operators, and system builders seeking to overcome practical challenges also for other NGN deployments. We report on establishing native SCION connectivity at research and education institutions that can reach 250,000 people across five continents, without relying on BGP. Our evaluation demonstrates that our core objectives were reached. Today, the SCIERA deployment offers tangible real-world benefits to users by providing rich global connectivity through a multitude of inter-domain paths. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 20/05183-0 - SkyNet: towards smart data planes |
| Grantee: | Luciano Paschoal Gaspary |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 23/00812-7 - Acceleration of latency-sensitive applications in virtualized environments |
| Grantee: | Ronaldo Alves Ferreira |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 23/00811-0 - EcoSustain - Computer and Data Science for the Environment |
| Grantee: | Antonio Jorge Gomes Abelém |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |