This strikes me a busy work, to placate a degree program. A web proxy and NAT by any other name will manage to be buzzword friendly, capture naive adopters, earn the attention of journalists, and complete grad school or whatever.
Lol given that the author, Frank, has multiple publications at top conferences already, I don't think he needed to pad out his publication record in any way.
Frank here. I didn't really need the paper to complete grad school. I thought it was a cool project to work on. That's all. There are a lot of solutions to a lot of problems. I'm not claiming it's the best one, just presenting a different way of thinking.