iRON

Official Project GitHub Repo: https://github.com/andrewdangelo/iRON.git

Abstract

Due to the extensive growth of network traffic over the internet, default BGP routing protocols aren't build to withstand today's packet load. As a result, end users experience significant packet loss which can result in a frustrating lag. Moreover, insecure network pathways lie vulnerable to malicious attacks from hackers. Once such attack know as DDoS, specifically, seeks to crash a network by congesting the pathways with a copious amount of data packets from varying sources.

IRON seeks to provide a solution to these pitfalls by providing an alternate overlay pathway that is specifically built to respond large influxes of data. If a user at some arbitrary point A wants to send data to their friend at some arbitrary point B, they can use our iRON network to ship it securely from point A to point B with as little latency as possible. Our iRON routing nodes are specifically built to detect congestion and re-route to less congested nodes based on the gathering of real-time network data. Additionally, in the case that a user wants to secure their data further, iRON provides an option that allows for data packets to be encrypted using AES encryption and remain that way until they are decrypted at the destination node.

Meet The Team

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