TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding BGP behavior through a study of DoD prefixes
AU - Zhao, Xiaoliang
AU - Massey, D.
AU - Wu, S. F.
AU - Lad, M.
AU - Pei, D.
AU - Wang, Lan
AU - Zhang, Lixia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - BGP is the de-facto inter-domain routing protocol and it is essential to understand how well BGP performs in the Internet. As a step toward this understanding, this paper studies the routing performance of a sample set of prefixes owned by the USA Department of Defense (DoD). We examine how reliably the sample set is connected to the Internet and how it affects the rest of the Internet. We show that our sample set receives reliable connectivity, with the exception of a few prefixes. We also show that, on average, the sample set has minimal impact on global routing, but certain BGP features used by DoD routers result in periods of excessive routing overhead. During some stressful periods, our sample set, only 0.2% of all prefixes, contributed over 80% of a particular BGP update class. We explain how the BGP design allows certain local changes to propagate globally and amplifies the impact of our sample prefixes.
AB - BGP is the de-facto inter-domain routing protocol and it is essential to understand how well BGP performs in the Internet. As a step toward this understanding, this paper studies the routing performance of a sample set of prefixes owned by the USA Department of Defense (DoD). We examine how reliably the sample set is connected to the Internet and how it affects the rest of the Internet. We show that our sample set receives reliable connectivity, with the exception of a few prefixes. We also show that, on average, the sample set has minimal impact on global routing, but certain BGP features used by DoD routers result in periods of excessive routing overhead. During some stressful periods, our sample set, only 0.2% of all prefixes, contributed over 80% of a particular BGP update class. We explain how the BGP design allows certain local changes to propagate globally and amplifies the impact of our sample prefixes.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84942238790
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U2 - 10.1109/DISCEX.2003.1194886
DO - 10.1109/DISCEX.2003.1194886
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84942238790
T3 - Proceedings - DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, DISCEX 2003
SP - 214
EP - 225
BT - Proceedings - DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, DISCEX 2003
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, DISCEX 2003
Y2 - 22 April 2003 through 24 April 2003
ER -