Control inbound traffic: Evolving the control plane routing system with Software Defined Networking

Abstract

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the current standard protocol for the inter-domain routing system. Although BGP makes easy to manipulate the output traffic by an Autonomous System (AS), it lacks other desired features such as convenient management of incoming traffic to an AS. Thus, we propose a framework to evolve the control plane routing system that is compatible with BGP (smooth transition), uses SDN technologies and can be used to management the incoming traffic of multihomed ASes. Based on our framework, a load balancing application was developed and applied to a scenario to depict the proof of concept of our framework. The results were compared and discussed with BGP AS-Path Prepending technique, shown an improvement of inbound traffic bandwidth utilization.