Master Thesis - Global peering and anycast

Netnod is a small high-tech firm based in Sweden which provides services at the core of the Internet, such as Internet-exchange

services, transmission, DNS-services, and time and frequency services. Netnod is at the forefront of secure and robust services.

At Netnod we mainly design security through diversity, that is by composing systems through many different nodes in many different

levels so that there is no single point of failure. In terms of security our systems focus on providing availability and

integrity, even in extreme scenarios.

Several of our services are dependent on anycast routing and peering on nodes across the globe for availability. Announcing and

de-announcing nodes is part of our toolkit for management traffic and global availability.

What should be the best-practices for ensuring availability of any global service; given events such as DDoS, faulty routing,

anycast and peering?

This thesis concerns digging into this issue, and if possible, suggest solutions. This thesis concerns both implementation and

evaluation of implementations.

The students are expected to be partly present at the Netnod main office in Solna, Stockholm. The planned semester is spring of

2026.