  Destination IP prefix-based routing protocols are core to Internet routing
today. Internet autonomous systems (AS) possess fixed IP prefixes, while
packets carry the intended destination AS's prefix in their headers, in clear
text. As a result, network communications can be easily identified using IP
addresses and become targets of a wide variety of attacks, such as DNS/IP
filtering, distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, man-in-the-middle
(MITM) attacks, etc. In this work, we explore an alternative network
architecture that fundamentally removes such vulnerabilities by disassociating
the relationship between IP prefixes and destination networks, and by allowing
any end-to-end communication session to have dynamic, short-lived, and
pseudo-random IP addresses drawn from a range of IP prefixes rather than one.
The concept is seemingly impossible to realize in todays Internet. We
demonstrate how this is doable today with three different strategies using
software defined networking (SDN), and how this can be done at scale to
transform the Internet addressing and routing paradigms with the novel concept
of a distributed software defined Internet exchange (SDX). The solution works
with both IPv4 and IPv6, whereas the latter provides higher degrees of IP
addressing freedom. Prototypes based on OpenvSwitches (OVS) have been
implemented for experimentation across the PEERING BGP testbed. The SDX
solution not only provides a technically sustainable pathway towards
large-scale traffic analysis resistant network (TARN) support, it also unveils
a new business model for customer driven, customizable and trustable end-to-end
network services.

Networking and Internet Architecture