Interdomain traffic engineering with BGP
Bruno Quoitin , Cristel Pelsser , Louis Swinnen , Olivier Bonaventure and Steve Uhlig
This 2003 international journal article, by Bruno Quoitin and 4 coauthors, was published in IEEE Communications Magazine. Topics covered include BGP, routing protocols, and network monitoring.
Full author list: Bruno Quoitin, Cristel Pelsser, Louis Swinnen, Olivier Bonaventure, and Steve Uhlig.
Abstract
Traffic engineering is performed by means of a set of techniques that can be used to better control the flow of packets inside an IP network. We discuss the utilization of these techniques across interdomain boundaries in the global Internet. We first analyze the characteristics of interdomain traffic on the basis of measurements from three different Internet service providers and show that a small number of sources are responsible for a large fraction of the traffic. Across interdomain boundaries, traffic engineering relies on a careful tuning of the route advertisements sent via the border gateway protocol. We explain how this tuning can be used to control the flow of incoming and outgoing traffic, and identify its limitations.
Publication Details
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Publication Date
- May 2003
- Published In
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Volume & Issue
- Vol. 41, No. 5
- Pages
- 122–128
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1109/MCOM.2003.1200112
Suggested citation
Bruno Quoitin, Cristel Pelsser, Louis Swinnen, Olivier Bonaventure, and Steve Uhlig. 2003. Interdomain traffic engineering with BGP. IEEE Communications Magazine 41, 5 (May 2003), 122–128. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2003.1200112
BibTeX Citation
BibTeX Citation
@article{Quoitin2003,
title = {Interdomain traffic engineering with BGP},
author = {Bruno Quoitin and Cristel Pelsser and Louis Swinnen and Olivier Bonaventure and Steve Uhlig},
year = 2003,
month = may,
journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
volume = 41,
number = 5,
pages = {122--128},
doi = {10.1109/MCOM.2003.1200112},
abstract = {Traffic engineering is performed by means of a set of techniques that can be used to better control the flow of packets inside an IP network. We discuss the utilization of these techniques across interdomain boundaries in the global Internet. We first analyze the characteristics of interdomain traffic on the basis of measurements from three different Internet service providers and show that a small number of sources are responsible for a large fraction of the traffic. Across interdomain boundaries, traffic engineering relies on a careful tuning of the route advertisements sent via the border gateway protocol. We explain how this tuning can be used to control the flow of incoming and outgoing traffic, and identify its limitations.},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/cm/QuoitinPSBU03.bib},
groups = {International Journals and Magazines},
keywords = {BGP, Routing protocols, Network monitoring},
numpages = 7
}
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