Abstract
Internet routing tables have been growing rapidly due to factors such as edge-site multihoming, traffic engineering, and disjoint address allocations. To address the routing scalability problems caused by this rapid growth, we propose an evolutionary approach that is incrementally deployable and provides immediate benefits to any adopting ASes. The basic premise of the approach is that route aggregation removes from routing tables the unnecessary topological details about remote portions of the Internet. We demonstrate that aggregation can be applied incrementally starting from local scopes within individual routers and individual ASes, and gradually expanded to the global Internet scope. The evaluation studies show that route aggregation is effective in addressing FIB scalability problems within a router and within a network.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 5586448 |
Pages (from-to) | 1363-1375 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2010 |
Keywords
- Evolutionary Design
- Network Architecture and Deisgn
- Prefix Aggregation
- Routing Protocols
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering