Multipath Routing Protocol in the Internet

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the current interdomain routing protocol, which limits each router to using a single best path for each destination prefix even though multiple paths are available. This may not satisfy the diverse requirements of end users. The long convergence delay in BGP may caus...

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Main Authors: Ragha, L.L., Bhaumik, B.B., Mukhopadhyay, S.K.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bandwidth
Computer science
Convergence
Electronic mail
Internet
IP networks
Materials requirements planning
Resource management
Routing protocols
Switches
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Summary:Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the current interdomain routing protocol, which limits each router to using a single best path for each destination prefix even though multiple paths are available. This may not satisfy the diverse requirements of end users. The long convergence delay in BGP may cause serious inefficiency in network resource utilization and vulnerability to route failures. In this paper we describe a multipath routing protocol for the internet to solve the problems by dynamically using the multiple paths without routing loops. Multipath routing protocol coexists with the existing BGP routers. This can be used as a defense against route failure and can also be used for improving utilization of network bandwidth.
ISSN:2157-0477
2157-0485
DOI:10.1109/ICETET.2009.156