Understanding BGP misconfiguration
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
On the correctness of IBGP configuration
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Route flap damping exacerbates internet routing convergence
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An empirical study of router response to large BGP routing table load
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
Analysis of the parallel packet switch architecture
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Scaling internet routers using optics
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
The case for separating routing from routers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture
Detecting BGP configuration faults with static analysis
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Designing extensible IP router software
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Control and forwarding plane interaction in distributed routers
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
A MPLS/LDP Distributed Architecture for Next Generation Routers
Journal of Network and Systems Management
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The number of new services and protocols required in IP routers is steadily growing. This adds to the complexity of the router control plane and increases the amount of work that has to be performed by the control processor. Accordingly, the trend of augmenting the router functionality has an important impact on control plane performance and robustness. Traditionally, router control software is intertwined into a single complex system in a centralized fashion. In this paper, we put forward a new way to design the control plane, based on modularization of control software into independent modules that can be decentralized to multiple processing elements and executed concurrently. We have applied this design approach on BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), with the main purpose to do an experimental performance evaluation of distributed control plane processing. We find that the time to process and install a large number of BGP routes, for instance during start-up of BGP, can be significantly reduced if the workload is spread over multiple processing units. We also identify several approaches for improving robustness through the use of a modular decentralized control plane. Finally, we demonstrate that such a system can be realized using unmodified open source routing software.