LOUP: who's afraid of the big bad loop?

  • Authors:
  • Nikola Gvozdiev;Brad Karp;Mark Handley

  • Affiliations:
  • University College London;University College London;University College London

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider the intra-AS route dissemination problem from first principles, and illustrate that when known route dissemination techniques propagate even a single external routing change, they can cause transient anomalies. These anomalies are not fundamental; they are artifacts of the order in which existing proposals disseminate routes. We show that carefully ordering route updates avoids transient looping and black holes. Perhaps surprisingly, this ordering may be enforced in a completely distributed fashion, while retaining familiar correctness, scalability, and convergence properties.