Publication Details
Title: Macroscopically Sustainable Networking: An Internet Quine
Author: B. Raghavan and S. Hasan
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: September 2012
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/TR-12-010.pdf
Overview:
The Internet stands atop an unseen industrial system required for its continued growth, operation, and maintenance. While its scale could not have been achieved without this reliance, its dependencies‐‐‐ranging from sophisticated manufacturing facilities to limited raw materials‐‐‐make make it vulnerable to disruptions. To achieve independence requires an Internet quine‐‐‐a set of devices, protocols, manufacturing facilities, software tools, and other related components that is self‐bootstrapping and capable of being used by engineers to reproduce itself and all the needed components of the Internet. In this paper, we study how such an Internet quine could be built. We also attempt to identify a minimal set of such tools and facilities, and how small and inexpensive they can be made.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-12-010
Bibliographic Reference:
B. Raghavan and S. Hasan. Macroscopically Sustainable Networking: An Internet Quine. ICSI Technical Report TR-12-010, September 2012
Author: B. Raghavan and S. Hasan
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: September 2012
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/TR-12-010.pdf
Overview:
The Internet stands atop an unseen industrial system required for its continued growth, operation, and maintenance. While its scale could not have been achieved without this reliance, its dependencies‐‐‐ranging from sophisticated manufacturing facilities to limited raw materials‐‐‐make make it vulnerable to disruptions. To achieve independence requires an Internet quine‐‐‐a set of devices, protocols, manufacturing facilities, software tools, and other related components that is self‐bootstrapping and capable of being used by engineers to reproduce itself and all the needed components of the Internet. In this paper, we study how such an Internet quine could be built. We also attempt to identify a minimal set of such tools and facilities, and how small and inexpensive they can be made.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-12-010
Bibliographic Reference:
B. Raghavan and S. Hasan. Macroscopically Sustainable Networking: An Internet Quine. ICSI Technical Report TR-12-010, September 2012