Interdomain routing characterization and modeling for traffic engineering and security

• Grant number: 20/05192-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Convênio/Acordo: MCTI/MC
• Principal Investigator: Italo Fernando Scotá Cunha
• Grantee: Italo Fernando Scotá Cunha
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Exatas (ICEx). Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Belo Horizonte , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Pedro de Botelho Marcos ; Ronaldo Alves Ferreira

Abstract

The BGP protocol has built-in limitations that jeopardize the Internet's fundamental goal of data delivery. First, BGP's information-hiding approach significantly complicates collaboration between autonomous systems, even in cases where there is mutual interest. Second, the absence of authentication and security primitives allows attacks against the Internet's interdomain routing system and causes simple configuration errors to disconnect millions of users. In this project, we will approach these built-in limitations in a three-step approach. First, we will develop new measurement and monitoring techniques to characterize interdomain routing on the Internet with greater precision, deepening our understanding of Internet properties. In particular, we will build a public database of BGP communities and will explore alternative routes to build a more complete map of the Internet's topology. Second, we will apply this improved understanding in building a new, more representative model of interdomain routing on the Internet. We will develop a model to predict Internet routes with greater accuracy than existing approaches and to estimate announcement configurations that lead to routes with given properties. Third, we will apply our model and its predictions in traffic engineering and anomaly detection solutions. The goals of these projects will benefit the research community, making available new databases and models, the network operator community, easing traffic engineering and anomaly detection, and Internet users, indirectly improving Internet performance and dependability. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SILVA, BRIVALDO A., JR.; MOL, PAULO; FONSECA, OSVALDO; CUNHA, ITALO; FERREIRA, RONALDO A.; KATZ-BASSETT, ETHAN. Automatic Inference of BGP Location Communities. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS, v. 6, n. 1, p. 23-pg., 2022-03-01. (14/50937-1, 15/24485-9, 20/05192-9)

MAZZOLA, FABRICIO; MARCOS, PEDRO; BARCELLOS, MARINHO; ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. Light, Camera, Actions: characterizing the usage of IXPs' action BGP communities. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING NETWORKING EXPERIMENTS AND TECHNOLOGIES, CONEXT 2022, v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2022-01-01. (20/05192-9)