BGP scaling techniques revisited

  • Authors:
  • John G. Scudder;Rohit Dube

  • Affiliations:
  • Internet Engineering Group, LLC, Ann Arbor, MI;Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This note adds definitions and clarification to "A Comparison of Scaling Techniques for BGP" [1], corrects some minor errors and clarifies points which may not have been clear in the original paper. It also adds a new analysis of the scaling properties of route-reflectors and confederations, leading to a new conclusion that route-reflection and confederations scale equally well in the general case and that the choice of the scaling technique employed by a network needs to be made on a basis other than the scalability metric we have analyzed.