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Inferring multilateral peering

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Publication date2013
Host publicationCoNEXT '13 Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages247-258
Number of pages12
ISBN (print)9781450321013
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event2013 9th ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2013 - Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Duration: 9/12/201312/12/2013

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Conference2013 9th ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Barbara, CA
Period9/12/1312/12/13

Conference

Conference2013 9th ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Barbara, CA
Period9/12/1312/12/13

Abstract

The AS topology incompleteness problem is derived from difficulties in the discovery of p2p links, and is amplified by the increasing popularity of Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) to support peering interconnection. We describe, implement, and validate a method for discovering currently invisible IXP peering links by mining BGP communities used by IXP route servers to implement multilateral peering (MLP), including communities that signal the intent to restrict announcements to a subset of participants at a given IXP. Using route server data juxtaposed with a mapping of BGP community values, we can infer 206K p2p links from 13 large European IXPs, four times more p2p links than what is directly observable in public BGP data. The advantages of the proposed technique are threefold. First, it utilizes existing BGP data sources and does not require the deployment of additional vantage points nor the acquisition of private data. Second, it requires only a few active queries, facilitating repeatability of the measurements. Finally, it offers a new source of data regarding the dense establishment of MLP at IXPs.