The Internet's unexploited path diversity

Abstract

The connectivity of the Internet at the Autonomous System level is influenced by the network operator policies implemented. These in turn impose a direction to the announcement of address advertisements and, consequently, to the paths that can be used to reach back such destinations. We propose to use directed graphs to properly represent how destinations propagate through the Internet and the number of arc-disjoint paths to quantify this network's path diversity. Moreover, in order to understand the effects that policies have on the connectivity of the Internet, numerical analyses of the resulting directed graphs were conducted. Results demonstrate that, even after policies have been applied, there is still path diversity which the Border Gateway Protocol cannot currently exploit.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2010.05.092483
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Internet,arc-disjoint paths,autonomous system level,border gateway protocol,directed graphs,network operator policies,numerical analyses,unexploited path diversity,Computer Science Applications,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Modelling and Simulation
Publication ISSN: 1558-2558
Last Modified: 02 Jan 2024 18:10
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2011 11:29
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2010-05
Authors: Arjona-Villicaňa, Pedro D.
Constantinou, Costas C.
Stepanenko, Alexander

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