Standardization wears a critical role in the field of research in Networking. Many different vendors manufacture networking equipment, network-attached devices, and software running on such devices. Without strong standardization efforts, the industry has to rely on de-facto proprietary standards, which typically hinders flexibility in the evolution of deployed infrastructures and services, and often prevents deployment in multi-vendor environments. Standardization is thus considered as an inherent part of the research work performed at IMDEA Networks, as it increases the likelihood of acceptance and practical deployment of our technological contributions.
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) is one of the premier standards organizations working on the lower layers in the network model. The most widely known series of IEEE standards are 802.3 (Ethernet) and 802.11 (Wi-Fi). Many of our researchers – often in collaboration with the UC3M NETCOM research group - perform research on the 802.11 wireless protocols standardized by the IEEE SA.
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) works across all layers of the network model in as far as such work relates to the internet, with the core focus on IP at the network layer and the protocols such as TCP running directly on top of IP.
The IAB (Internet Architecture Board) is a body of 13 experts that plays a major role in the process of definition of Internet Protocols and, as a result, on the worldwide evolution of the Internet. The IAB oversees the technical and engineering development of the Internet by the Internet Society (ISOC). As such, it wields a lot of influence over the architectural direction towards which IETF standards evolve.
Institute IMDEA Networks develops ongoing work on standardization within the IEEE and the IETF:
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2015 [1]
- Juan Camilo Cardona, Pierre Francois, Paolo Lucente (June 2015)
Impact of BGP filtering on Inter-Domain Routing Policies. draft-ietf-grow-filtering-threats-06 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
2014 [8]
- Jim Uttaro, Pierre Francois, Keyur Patel, Pradosh Mohapatra, Jeffrey Haas, Roberto Fragassi, Adam Simpson (December 2014)
Best Practices for Advertisement of Multiple Paths in IBGP. draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-guidelines-07 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois, Stefano Previdi, Bruno Decraene, Stephane Litkowski, Martin Horneffer, Igor Milojevic, Rob Shakir, Saku Ytti, Wim Henderickx, Jeff Tanstura, Sriganesh Kini, Edward Crabbe (October 2014)
Segment Routing Use Cases. draft-filsfils-rtgwg-segment-routing-use-cases-02 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Pierre Francois, Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Bashandy, Bruno Decraene, Stephane Litkowski (October 2014)
Topology Independent Fast Reroute using Segment Routing. draft-francois-segment-routing-ti-lfa-00 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Pierre Francois, Bruno Decraene, Cristel Pelsser, Keyur Patel, Clarence Filsfils (August 2014)
Graceful BGP session shutdown. draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-06 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Pierre Francois, Clarence Filsfils, Bruno Decraene, Rob Shakir (May 2014)
Use-cases for Resiliency in SPRING. draft-francois-spring-resiliency-use-case-02 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Pierre Francois, Juan Camilo Cardona, Adam Simpson, Jeffrey Haas (February 2014)
ADD-PATH limit capability. draft-francois-idr-addpath-limit-00 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Pierre Francois, Juan Camilo Cardona, Adam Simpson, Jeffrey Haas (February 2014)
ADD-PATH for Route Servers. draft-francois-idr-rs-addpaths-00 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Stephane Litkowski, Bruno Decraene, Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois (February 2014)
Microloop prevention by introducting a local convergence delay. draft-litkowski-rtgwg-uloop-delay-03 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
2013 [5]
- Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois, Stefano Previdi, Bruno Decraene, Stephane Litkowski, Martin Horneffer, Igor Milojevic, Rob Shakir, Saku Ytti, Wim Henderickx (October 2013)
Segment Routing Use Cases . draft-filsfils-rtgwg-segment-routing-use-cases-02 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Carlos Jesús Bernardos, Antonio De la Oliva, Fabio Giust (July 2013)
An IPv6 Distributed Client Mobility Management approach using existing mechanisms. DMM Working Group, draft-bernardos-dmm-cmip-00 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Carlos Jesús Bernardos, Antonio De la Oliva, Fabio Giust (July 2013)
A PMIPv6-based solution for Distributed Mobility Management. IETF DMM Working Group, draft-bernardos-dmm-pmip-03 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Juan Camilo Cardona, Pierre Francois, Saikat Ray, Keyur Patel, Paolo Lucente , Pradosh Mohapatra (July 2013)
BGP Path Marking. draft-bgp-path-marking-00 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Mike Shand, Stewart Bryant, Stefano Previdi, Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois, Olivier Bonaventure (July 2013)
Framework for Loop-Free Convergence Using the Ordered Forwarding Information Base (oFIB) Approach . RFC 6976 (IETF RFC) [PDF]
2012 [8]
- Bruno Decraene, Pierre Francois (November 2012)
Assigned BGP extended communities. IETF IDR Working Group Document, draft-ietf-idr-reserved-extended-communities-04 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Pradosh Mohapatra, Adam Simpson, Pierre Francois, Virginie Van den Schrieck, Roberto Fragassi, Jim Uttaro (November 2012)
Best Practices for Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP. IETF IDR Working Group Document, draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-guidelines-04 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Mike Shand, Stewart Bryant, Stefano Previdi, Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois, Olivier Bonaventure (September 2012)
Loop-free convergence using oFIB. draft-ietf-rtgwg-ordered-fib-07 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Olivier Bonaventure, Stefano Previdi, Pierre Francois, Stewart Bryant, Clarence Filsfils, Mike Shand (June 2012)
Loop-free convergence using oFIB. draft-ietf-rtgwg-ordered-fib-06 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Martin Horneffer, Pierre Francois, Clarence Filsfils, Jim Uttaro, Mike Shand, Bruno Decraene, Nicolai Leymann (June 2012)
Loop-Free Alternate (LFA) Applicability in Service Provider (SP) Networks. IETF Request for Comments: 6571 (IETF RFC) [PDF]
- Bruno Decraene, Pierre Francois (May 2012)
Assigned BGP extended communities. IETF IDR Working Group Document, draft-ietf-idr-reserved-extended-communities-04 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois (January 2012)
LFA applicability in SP networks. IETF RTG Working group, draft-ietf-rtgwg-lfa-applicability-05 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois (January 2012)
LFA applicability in SP networks. IETF RTG Working group, draft-ietf-rtgwg-lfa-applicability-06 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
2011 [8]
- Clarence Filsfils, Pierre Francois (December 2011)
LFA Applicability in Service Provider Networks . draft-ietf-rtgwg-lfa-applicability-04 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Pierre Francois, Bruno Decraene, Cristel Pelsser, Keyur Patel, Clarence Filsfils (December 2011)
Graceful BGP session shutdown. IETF GROW Working Group Document, draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-03 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]
- Antonio De la Oliva, Ilenia Tinnirello, Pablo Serrano, Francesco Gringoli (November 2011)
Flexibility on Channel Access Allocations. 11-11-1485-00-0wng-flexibility-on-channel-access-allocations (IEEE Standard) [PDF]
- Iljitsch Van Beijnum (October 2011)
An FTP Application Layer Gateway (ALG) for IPv6-to-IPv4 Translation. RFC 6384 (IETF RFC) [PDF]
- Antonio De la Oliva, Fabio Giust, Carlos Jesús Bernardos (July 2011)
Network based Distributed Mobility Approach. 21-11-0123-01-0000-ieee-802-21-network-based-dmm (IEEE Standard) [PDF]
- Marcelo Bagnulo, P. Matthews, Iljitsch Van Beijnum (April 2011)
Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers RFC 6146. RFC 6146 (IETF RFC) [PDF]
- Marcelo Bagnulo, A. Sullivan, P. Matthews, Iljitsch Van Beijnum (April 2011)
DNS64: DNS Extensions for Network Address Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers . Request for Comments (RFC) 6147 (IETF RFC) [PDF]
- Antonio De la Oliva, Fabio Giust, Carlos Jesús Bernardos (March 2011)
Distributed Mobility Management using IEEE 802.21. 21-11-0045-00-0000 (IEEE Standard) [PDF]
2010 [2]
- Antonio De la Oliva, Fabio Giust, Carlos Jesús Bernardos (November 2010)
Contribution to the Future Project Planning Meeting. N-A (IEEE Standard) [PDF]
- Antonio De la Oliva, Albert Banchs (March 2010)
Providing Service Guarantees in Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks. DCN: 21-10-0064-00-0000. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER (IEEE Standard) [PDF]
2009 [3]
- Iljitsch Van Beijnum (July 2009)
Router buffer sizing. N-A (Other) [PDF]
- Iljitsch Van Beijnum, Jari Arkko (June 2009)
Failure Detection and Locator Pair Exploration Protocol for IPv6 Multihoming. RFC 5524 (IETF RFC) [PDF]
- Iljitsch Van Beijnum (May 2009)
One-ended multipath TCP. draft-van-beijnum-1e-mp-tcp-00 (IETF Internet Draft) [PDF]