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Rethinking iBGP routing

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 40, Issue 4

Pages 411 - 412

https://doi.org/10.1145/1851275.1851236

Published: 30 August 2010 Publication History

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The Internet is organized as a collection of administrative domains, known as Autonomous Systems (ASes). These ASes interact through the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that allows them to share reachability information. Adjacent routers in distinct ASes use external BGP (eBGP), whereas in a given AS routes are propagated over internal BGP (iBGP) sessions between any pair of routers. In large ASes where a logical full-mesh is not possible, confederations or route reflectors (RRs) are used. However, these somewhat scalable alternatives have introduced their own set of unpredictable effects (persistent routing oscillations and forwarding loops causing an increase of the convergence time) addressed in the literature [1].

The solution we propose to these issues consists of a structured routing overlay holding a comprehensive view of the routes. We describe the design of a distributed entity that performs BGP route pre-computation for its clients inside a large backbone network and propagates the paths to the routers. Compared to the current iBGP routing, the advantage of the overlay approach is the separation between the responsibility of the control plane (route storage and best path computation) and the forwarding of the packets.

One of the major improvements we bring is the divided routing table tackling the scalability concerns and allowing for parallel computation of paths.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 40, Issue 4

SIGCOMM '10

October 2010

481 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/1851275

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SIGCOMM '10: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
August 2010
500 pages
ISBN:9781450302012
DOI:10.1145/1851182
General Chairs:
Shiv Kalyanaraman
IBM Research, India
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Venkat Padmanabhan
Microsoft Research, India
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K. K. Ramakrishnan
IBM Research, India
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Rajeev Shorey
NIIT University, India
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Program Chairs:
K. K. Ramakrishnan
IBM Research, India
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Geoffrey M. Voelker
University of California, San Diego, USA

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Bennesby RMota EFonseca PPassito A(2014)Innovating on Interdomain Routing with an Inter-SDN ComponentProceedings of the 2014 IEEE 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications10.1109/AINA.2014.21(131-138)Online publication date: 13-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/AINA.2014.21
Zhao DLiu HHu XWu C(2012)Constructing Robust Dissemination Paths in Centralized Control NetworkProceedings of the 2012 Sixth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing10.1109/IMIS.2012.77(421-426)Online publication date: 4-Jul-2012
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Zhao DWu CHu XLiu H(2011)Virtual Area Routing: a Scalable Intra-Domain Routing SchemeAdvanced Engineering Forum10.4028/www.scientific.net/AEF.1.3201(320-324)Online publication date: Sep-2011
https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AEF.1.320

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