Investigating prefix propagation through active BGP probing
Venue
Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 31, no. 7 (2007), pp. 460-474
Publication Year
2007
Authors
Lorenzo Colitti, Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani, Maurizio Pizzonia, Massimo Rimondini
BibTeX
Abstract
To devise effective network engineering strategies and to assess the quality of
upstream providers, network operators would greatly benefit from the knowledge of
which Internet paths might be traversed by the traffic flows entering their
networks in the case of network faults or when traffic engineering measures are
used. However, current methodologies do not provide this information. This paper
presents methodologies to discover alternate paths that might be selected in the
presence of network faults or different routing policies and to deduce the routing
policies of other operators. The techniques are validated through extensive
experimentation on the Internet.
