SQUAB: A Virtualized Infrastructure for Experiments on BGP and its Extensions
| Autor: | Jason Paul Cruz, Naoki Umeda, Masayuki Okada, Shingo Okamura, Naoto Yanai, Tatsuya Takemura |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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business.industry Computer science ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS Computational resource Network topology Laptop Border Gateway Protocol Scalability Overhead (computing) The Internet business Protocol (object-oriented programming) Computer network |
| Zdroj: | Advanced Information Networking and Applications ISBN: 9783030750992 AINA (1) |
| Popis: | The border gateway protocol (BGP), which is known as a backbone protocol of the Internet, is constantly the target of many hijack attacks. To combat such attacks, many extensions of BGP have been developed to make BGP more secure. However, to perform experiments to evaluate their performance, most BGP extensions require the utilization of platforms, such as testbeds, with high operating costs. In this paper, we propose SQUAB (Scalable QUagga-based Automated Configuration on Bgp), a lightweight evaluation tool for protocols under development and for protocols that will be developed by a user with actual devices locally. SQUAB can configure BGP networks automatically, and thus it can significantly reduce the overhead of experiments on BGP and its extensions. Unlike conventional testbeds, SQUAB can set up BGP networks locally and its execution requires only a computational resource of a typical laptop computer. We used SQUAB in experiments to check the validity of functions based on network topologies in the real world. Our results show that SQUAB can configure a network composed of 50 routers within 52.9 s and consumes only 354.7 MB of memory. Furthermore, as a case study, we confirm that SQUAB can also provide experimental networks, even including other protocols, e.g., BGPsec. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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