Objective:
The iRON team seeks to build a Resilient Overlay Network (RON) as a solution traditional internet latency and security vulnerabilities.
Background:
A large problem with the internet is traffic and engineers have developed routing techniques to reduce traffic and end-to-end delay for communicating nodes. The iRON team believes that rerouting through a RON can be a great solution for internet traffic while potentially providing a layer of security via the RON existing on top of the internet.
Methodology:
Over the course of the next year, the iRON team will develop this project in Go by first tackling problems relating to simple rerouting techniques for UDP packets and then scaling the program to work with more complex networks and having a specific RON for packets to be rerouted through. We may also use DevOps technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for CI/CD capabilities.
Expected Results:
The iRON team expects to have built a simple scalable Resilient Overlay Network (RON) that works to provide a solution to latency and security vulnerabilities currently witnessed over the traditional internet.
Projected Costs:
Outside of minute server hosting costs, iRON does not expect to have any costs because the implementation is all coding in Go and all testing would be done on a local subnet, both of which are free.