Path brokering for end-host path selection
John Russell Lane, Akihiro Nakao · 2008
Endhost path selection---the ability for endhosts to specify the paths which their packets should traverse---has been proposed as a promising means for meeting next-generation Internet goals such as high availability and application-tailored routing. However, current proposals have serious shortcomings. First, they typically allow only limited path selection; second, they generally do not provide a billing method by which users may pay operators along their chosen path for service. Moreover, to date, proposals do not consider the use of non-network layer technologies such as MPLS which offer considerable performance advantages.