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An analysis of BGP convergence properties

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Timothy G. Griffin and

Gordon WilfongAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 29, Issue 4

Pages 277 - 288

https://doi.org/10.1145/316194.316231

Published: 30 August 1999 Publication History

Abstract

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto inter-domain routing protocol used to exchange reachability information between Autonomous Systems in the global Internet. BGP is a path-vector protocol that allows each Autonomous System to override distance-based metrics with policy-based metrics when choosing best routes. Varadhan et al. [18] have shown that it is possible for a group of Autonomous Systems to independently define BGP policies that together lead to BGP protocol oscillations that never converge on a stable routing. One approach to addressing this problem is based on static analysis of routing policies to determine if they are safe. We explore the worst-case complexity for convergence-oriented static analysis of BGP routing policies. We present an abstract model of BGP and use it to define several global sanity conditions on routing policies that are related to BGP convergence/divergence. For each condition we show that the complexity of statically checking it is either NP-complete or NP-hard.

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cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 29, Issue 4

Oct. 1999

292 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/316194

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SIGCOMM '99: Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
August 1999
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