Leveraging Path Diversity to Enhance Resilience, Scalability and Energy-Efficiency with SCION

SCION is a novel NGI architecture that has reached a level of maturity, which renders it ready today for large-scale deployment. The objective is to deploy SCION over the NSF BRIDGES infrastructure over two very high-speed transatlantic links and validate its characteristics. This project will demonstrate the SCION benefits by means of experiments between the US and Europe over the SCIONLab testbed to show the privacy-enhancement (e.g., by splitting traffic over multiple paths) and improved reliability (e.g. with multi-path and seamless path failover) over SCION, as well as the scalability of our SCION-based path discovery mechanisms which help to effectively reduce the network’s power consumption and incentivize ISPs and transit providers to shift towards greener electricity.