Predicting Specification Violations During BGP Convergence


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Date

2023-12-08

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Conference Paper

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Abstract

Analyzing a network's behavior during convergence is challenging due to its highly non-deterministic nature. To address this, we developed BGPseer, the first analyzer that predicts specification violations during BGP convergence without network disruption. To do this both accurately and fast, BGPseer builds a probabilistic network timing model based on hardware measurements that allows to sample BGP message orderings, from which BGPseer estimates violation times. We implemented BGPseer by extending an open-source BGP simulator and show that it achieves 85--99% accuracy in estimating violation times in less than ten seconds.

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published

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CoNEXT-SW '23: Proceedings of the on CoNEXT Student Workshop 2023

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25 - 26

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Association for Computing Machinery

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19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2023)

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Software

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Subject

Transient Specification Violation; Transient Violation; Control-Plane Verification; Probabilistic Verification; Network Simulation

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09477 - Vanbever, Laurent / Vanbever, Laurent check_circle

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Funding

851809 - From Network Verification to Synthesis: Breaking New Ground in Network Automation (EC)

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