Li, J;
Zhou, S;
Giotsas, V;
(2021)
Performance Analysis of Multipath BGP.
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Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS).
IEEE: Vancouver, Canada.
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Abstract
Multipath BGP (M-BGP) allows a BGP router to install multiple ‘equally-good’ paths, via parallel inter-domain border links, to a destination prefix. M-BGP differs from the multipath routing techniques in many ways, e.g. M-BGP is only implemented at border routers of Autonomous Systems (ASes); and while it shares traffic to different IP addresses in a destination prefix via different border links, any traffic to a given destination IP always follows the same border link. Recently we studied Looking Glass data and reported the wide deployment of M-BGP in the Internet; in particular, Hurricane Electric (AS6939) has implemented over 1,000 cases of M-BGP to hundreds of its peering ASes.In this paper, we analyzed the performance of M-BGP. We used RIPE Atlas to send traceroute probes to a series of destination prefixes through Hurricane Electric’s border routers implemented with M-BGP. We examined the distribution of Round Trip Time to each probed IP address in a destination prefix and their variation during the measurement. We observed that the deployment of M-BGP can guarantee stable routing between ASes and enhance a network’s resilience to traffic changes. Our work provides insights into the unique characteristics of M-BGP as an effective technique for load balancing.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Performance Analysis of Multipath BGP |
| Event: | IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-6654-0443-3 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484523 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.94... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Multipath BGP, M-BGP, Internet routing, traceroute, Round Trip Time, RIPE Atlas, inter-domain, multipath routing |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125285 |
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