The Aftermath of Prefix Deaggregation
Andra Lutu , Cristel Pelsser , Marcelo Bagnulo and Kenjiro Cho
This 2013 international conference paper, by Andra Lutu and 3 coauthors, was presented at Proceedings of the 2013 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC). Topics covered include routing, internet, economics, monitoring, advertising, and topology.
Full author list: Andra Lutu, Cristel Pelsser, Marcelo Bagnulo, and Kenjiro Cho.
Abstract
Prefix deaggregation is recognized as a steady long-lived phenomenon at the interdomain level, despite its well-known negative effects for the community. The advertisement of more-specific prefixes provides network operators with a fine-grained method to control the interdomain ingress traffic. Moreover, customer networks combining this mechanism with selective advertisements may decrease their monthly transit traffic bill and potentially impact the business of their providers. In this paper, we develop a methodology for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor new occurrences of prefix deaggregation within their customer base. Moreover, the ISPs can detect on their own when deaggregation may decrease the transit bill of their customer networks. We first examine the ISP's BGP routing data for new cases of prefix deaggregation generated by customers. Then, we check for selective advertisements of the newly generated prefixes using external routing data. We look beyond the incentives for deploying this type of strategy and instead we examine its economic impact. We exemplify the proposed methodology on a complete set of data including routing, traffic, topological and billing information provided by a major Japanese ISP and we discuss the implications of the obtained results.
Publication Details
- Publication Type
- Conference Paper
- Publication Date
- September 2013
- Published In
- Proceedings of the 2013 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)
- Pages
- 1--8
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Location
- Shanghai, China
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1109/ITC.2013.6662950
Suggested citation
Andra Lutu, Cristel Pelsser, Marcelo Bagnulo, and Kenjiro Cho. 2013. The Aftermath of Prefix Deaggregation. In Proceedings of the 2013 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC). IEEE, Shanghai, China, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITC.2013.6662950
BibTeX Citation
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{Lutu2013,
title = {The Aftermath of Prefix Deaggregation},
author = {Andra Lutu and Cristel Pelsser and Marcelo Bagnulo and Kenjiro Cho},
year = 2013,
month = sep,
journal = {Proceedings of the 2013 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)},
booktitle = {25th International Teletraffic Congress, {ITC} 2013},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {Shanghai, China},
pages = {1--8},
doi = {10.1109/ITC.2013.6662950},
isbn = {978-0-9836283-7-8},
abstract = {Prefix deaggregation is recognized as a steady long-lived phenomenon at the interdomain level, despite its well-known negative effects for the community. The advertisement of more-specific prefixes provides network operators with a fine-grained method to control the interdomain ingress traffic. Moreover, customer networks combining this mechanism with selective advertisements may decrease their monthly transit traffic bill and potentially impact the business of their providers. In this paper, we develop a methodology for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor new occurrences of prefix deaggregation within their customer base. Moreover, the ISPs can detect on their own when deaggregation may decrease the transit bill of their customer networks. We first examine the ISP's BGP routing data for new cases of prefix deaggregation generated by customers. Then, we check for selective advertisements of the newly generated prefixes using external routing data. We look beyond the incentives for deploying this type of strategy and instead we examine its economic impact. We exemplify the proposed methodology on a complete set of data including routing, traffic, topological and billing information provided by a major Japanese ISP and we discuss the implications of the obtained results.},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/teletraffic/LutuPBC13.bib},
eventdate = {10-12 Sept. 2013},
eventtitleaddon = {Shanghai, China},
file = {:Lutu2013 - The Aftermath of Prefix Deaggregation.pdf:PDF},
groups = {International Conferences},
keywords = {Routing, Internet, Economics, Monitoring, Advertising, Topology}
}
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