From the Traffic Properties to Traffic Engineering inthe Internet; .: Implications of the Traffic Properties onTraffic Engineering with BGP: The View from Stub ASes. - Softcover

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Due to concerns about resilience and performance,more and more stub networks in the Internet relyon multi-homing. Multi-homing consists in connectinga network to the Internet at different accesspoints. As traffic leaves and enters the networkthrough several access links, multi-homed networksneed to control their traffic, also called trafficengineering. Multi-homed networks typically performtraffic engineering by tweaking the BGP routingprotocol. The purpose of BGP is to distribute theinformation about reachable networks across the wholeInternet, not to perform traffic engineering.It is thus important for multi-homed networks to knowthe complexity of traffic engineering with BGP.In this book, we explain how BGP can be used toengineer the traffic and what can be expected fromdoing it. The content of this book targets two typesof readers. First, the network managers of smallto medium-size stub networks will better understandBGP and how to use it to engineer their traffic.Second, researchers in networking will learn aboutthree different research areas: Internet trafficcharacteristics, interdomain routing, andevolutionary optimization.

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