TRECON: A Framework for Enforcing Trusted ISP Peering

We envision that neglecting economic factors and trustworthiness evaluation of ISPs is one of the obstacles to developing next generation Internet (NGI). In this paper, we take the initial step to build a general framework called TRECON, which combines an adaptive personalized trust model (alphaPET) with an economic-based approach and provides independent routing among ISPs. With TRECON, autonomous organizations (e.g., ISPs) with varied interests and optimization criteria are smoothly integrated together to achieve better scalability, isolation and self-management. The evaluation results show that the trust-based strategy (TRU) performs much better than the global shortest path routing (SPA) approach in terms of delay, reliability and economic incentives.