96. A First Implementation of the Delay Based Routing Protocol

In this paper, we introduce the first implementation of the Delay Based Routing Protocol (DBRP), a flexible distance vector routing protocol with a delay based metric, that supports authentication and encryption. Besides carrying routing information, DBRP also transports information for common services such as the IP addresses of the DNS servers. It operates over the data link layer and is centered on Type-Length-Value (TLV) tuples, which make it easy to extend to other existing or future network protocols. Our implementation is developed in C++, and offers a GUI developed in Qt for easy configuration. We validate this first implementation under several test scenarios and have obtained very encouraging results. Additionally, the exploratory study of our application that we conduce with a group of students indicates that the protocol can be easily understood and configured through the GUI.