Using BGP in a Satellite-Based Challenged Network Environment

Roman Chertov, Kevin Almeroth
2010 2010 7th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON)  
Once, satellites were considered an important option for creating global Internet access. However, for a period of time, satellites were supplanted by other ground-based technologies. More recently, satellites have been proposed as an integral component in highly dynamic challenged environments where large numbers of mobile devices connect through satellite-based terminals. Routing within groups of mobile devices is performed by one of the myriad of wireless routing protocols, but over the
more » ... /ground link, BGP is the protocol of choice. In this work, we conduct a high fidelity experimental study of link intermittency on the space/ground link and its effect on BGP peering sessions between ground and satellite routers. Our results show that a routing architecture that does not correctly adapt to the particular characteristics of satellite links performs very poorly. By contrast, a correctly tuned routing architecture can survive prolonged outages intermixed with short periods of link connectivity.
doi:10.1109/secon.2010.5508268 dblp:conf/secon/ChertovA10 fatcat:qe5t3f5agnd6fpk7jmlg5ftnhq