Securing BGP — A Literature Survey

Author

Huston, Geoff ; Rossi, Mattia ; Armitage, Grenville

Author_Institution

Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Volume

13

Issue

2

fYear

2011

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

222

Abstract

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the Internet´s inter-domain routing protocol. One of the major concerns related to BGP is its lack of effective security measures, and as a result the routing infrastructure of the Internet is vulnerable to various forms of attack. This paper examines the Internet´s routing architecture and the design of BGP in particular, and surveys the work to date on securing BGP. To date no proposal has been seen as offering a combination of adequate security functions, suitable performance overheads and deployable support infrastructure. Some open questions on the next steps in the study of BGP security are posed.

Keywords

Internet; computer network security; internetworking; routing protocols; BGP security; Internet interdomain routing protocol; Internet routing architecture; border gateway protocol; security functions; Computer networks; Computer security; Distributed computing; IP networks; Information security; Proposals; Routing protocols; Stability; Web and internet services; BGP; BGP security; Computer Network Protocols; Inter-domain routing security; routing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1553-877X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/SURV.2011.041010.00041

Filename

5473881