Cooperative monitoring BGP among autonomous systems

Abstract As the de facto Internet inter‐domain routing protocol, BGP protocol has a number of vulnerabilities and weakness. Monitoring BGP is an effective way to improve the security of inter‐domain routing. This paper presents a cooperative BGP monitoring method, which is called cooperative information sharing model (CoISM). CoISM is based on self‐organization and can be used to solve some problems during BGP monitoring, such as route validation and bogus route notification delivery. CoISM provides autonomous systems with a more comprehensive information view by introducing information diffuse reflection based on initiative inquiry and making use of the relativity of monitoring information. CoISM optimizes the information transmission by leveraging the data locality caused by BGP policy and implements ISP coordination with low communication and deployment cost. More specifically, CoISM provides a self‐organizing and incentive mechanism, which drives autonomous systems to coordinate independently and shares information on‐demand. CoISM supports incremental deployment and can also be applied to a wide range of inter‐domain cooperative management applications such as inter‐domain routing failure analysis and intrusion detection. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.