Title
Inferring the origin of routing changes based on preferred path changes
Abstract
Previous studies on inferring the origin of routing changes in the Internet are limited to failure events that generate a large number of routing changes. In this paper, we present a novel approach to origin inference of small failure events. Our scheme focuses on routing changes imposed on preferred paths of prefixes and not on transient paths triggered by path exploration. We first infer the preferred path of each prefix and measure the stability of each inter-AS link over this preferred path. The stability is measured based on routing changes of specific prefixes that regularly use the link and are advertised by the AS adjacent to the link. We then correlate the stability of other links over this path and infer the instability boundary as the origin. Our analysis using Oregon RouteViews data and trouble tickets from operational networks shows that our inference scheme can identify the origins of small failure events with very high accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-19260-9_17
PAM
Keywords
Field
DocType
failure event,preferred path,origin inference,preferred path change,path exploration,inference scheme,oregon routeviews data,transient path,small failure event,high accuracy,inter-as link
Equal-cost multi-path routing,Computer science,Inference,Static routing,Computer network,Prefix,Distributed computing,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6579
0302-9743
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Masafumi Watari1435.09
Atsuo Tachibana2377.02
Shigehiro Ano36922.98