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A performance evaluation of BGP‐based traffic engineering
Author(s) -
Quoitin Bruno,
Pelsser Cristel,
Bonaventure Olivier,
Uhlig Steve
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.559
Subject(s) - computer science , border gateway protocol , computer network , traffic flow (computer networking) , service provider , traffic engineering , internet service provider , the internet , internet traffic , control (management) , service (business) , computer security , routing protocol , routing (electronic design automation) , world wide web , artificial intelligence , static routing , economy , economics
Abstract Many Internet Service Providers tune the configuration of the Border Gateway Protocol on their routers to control their traffic. Content providers often need to control their outgoing traffic while access providers need to control their incoming traffic. We show, by means of measurements and simulations, that controlling the flow of the incoming interdomain traffic is a difficult problem. For this purpose, we first rely on detailed measurements to show the limitations of AS‐Path prepending. Then, we show by using large‐scale simulations that the difficulty of controlling the flow of the incoming traffic lies in the difficulty of predicting which BGP route will be selected by distant Autonomous Systems (ASs). Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.