MoN10: Tenth Mathematics of Networks meeting, 16th September, Loughborough University
Vasileios Giotsas (UCL) - Inferring AS relationships from BGP attributes
Business relationships between autonomous systems (AS) are crucial for Internet routing. Existing algorithms used heuristics to infer AS relationships from AS topology data. In this paper we propose a different approach to infer AS relationships from more informative data sources, namely the BGP Community and Local Preference attributes. These data contain rich information on AS routing policies and therefore closely reflect AS relationships. We accumulate the BGP data from RouteViews, RIPE RIS and route servers in August 2010 and February 2011. We infer the AS relationships for 39% of links that are visible in our BGP data. They cover the majority of links among the Tier-1 and Tier-2 ASes. The BGP data also allow us to discover special relationship types, namely hybrid relationship, partial-transit relationship, indirect peering relationship and backup links. Finally we evaluate and analyse the problems of the existing inference algorithms.
The talk is based on the papers Inferring Internet AS Relationships Based on BGP Routing Policies and Detecting and Assessing the Hybrid IPv4/IPv6 AS Relationships.
Contact:
Keith Briggs
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Richard G. Clegg (richard@richardclegg.org)