Archipelago Details
Routing
- Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV)
- Loop-free enhancement of Bellman-Ford (steady state)
- Hop count distance metric
- Routing decisions made at every hop
Stream transport
- Provides ordering and reliability services
- Selective-repeat style protocol with reduced acknowledgements (optimized for wireless networks)
- TCP style dynamic window for congestion and flow control
- Used to bridge connections to the Internet
Session
- SOCKS 4&5 Proxy (RFC1928, RFC1929)
- Client Library API
- Connection Forwarder (used for HTTP Proxy and DNS)