Characterizing inter-domain rerouting after Japan earthquake

Yujing Liu, Xiapu Luo, Kow Chuen Chang, Jinshu Su

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Abstract

The Internet is designed to survive when some of its components become faulty. Rerouting is an important approach to bypassing faulty links. In this paper, we propose a method to characterize inter-domain rerouting as a result of the massive earthquake in Japan on March 2011. Moreover, the characterization helps correlate inter-domain rerouting events and end-to-end path-quality degradation measured in Hong Kong. We analyse the variation of AS betweenness centrality extracted from BGP data to identify the time span when most routes changed, the ASes that were most seriously affected, and the correlative and backup paths. The results show that three major providers of inbound traffic to Hong Kong were affected by unstable routing state caused by a cable fault after the earthquake. Our work provides a new method of utilizing control plane's information to diagnose data plane's problem.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNETWORKING 2012 - 11th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, Proceedings
Pages124-135
Number of pages12
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jun 2012
Event11th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 21 May 201225 May 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume7290 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2012
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period21/05/1225/05/12

Keywords

  • betweenness centrality
  • BGP
  • inter-domain routing
  • Japan earthquake

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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