Open AccessStudy of BGP Convergence Time
Author(s) -
Rohit Nilkanth Devikar,
Dipak V. Patil,
V. Chandraprakash
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 2088-8708
DOI - 10.11591/ijece.v6i1.pp413-420
Subject(s) - border gateway protocol , computer network , default free zone , computer science , routing protocol , convergence (economics) , scalability , distributed computing , network mapping , path vector protocol , the internet , distance vector routing protocol , routing (electronic design automation) , link state routing protocol , database , world wide web , economics , economic growth
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a path vector routing protocol, is a widespread exterior gateway protocol (EGP) in the internet. Extensive deployment of the new technologies in internet, protocols need to have continuous improvements in its behavior and operations. New routing technologies conserve a top level of service availability. Hence, due to topological changes, BGP needs to achieve a fast network convergence. Now a days size of the network growing very rapidly. To maintain the high scalability in the network BGP needs to avoid instability. The instability and failures may cause the network into an unstable state, which significantly increases the network convergence time. This paper summarizes the various approaches like BGP policies, instability, and fault detection etc. to improve the convergence time of BGP.