HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach

Green networking techniques aim to shut down the least utilized links and/or routers during off-peaks hours. In this paper, we show that such techniques negatively impact the operation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). We quantify the impacts of two representative green approaches: (i) GAES, a g...

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Main Authors: Ruiz-Rivera, A., Chin, K., Raad, R., Soh, Sie Teng
Other Authors: Abbas Jamalipour
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42822
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author Ruiz-Rivera, A.
Chin, K.
Raad, R.
Soh, Sie Teng
author2 Abbas Jamalipour
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Ruiz-Rivera, A.
Chin, K.
Raad, R.
Soh, Sie Teng
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description Green networking techniques aim to shut down the least utilized links and/or routers during off-peaks hours. In this paper, we show that such techniques negatively impact the operation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). We quantify the impacts of two representative green approaches: (i) GAES, a green technique that modifies link weights, and (ii) ESOL, a green technique that does not involve link weights adjustments. Experiments over the Abilene, AT&T, GEANT and SURFnet topologies show that when using GAES, routing changes and the proportion of rerouted traffic, both of which affect BGP, are in the order of 108% and 141% greater than ESOL. Therefore, we propose Hot Potato Low UtiliZation (HotPLUZ), a greenapproach that takes hot-potato routing into account. HotPLUZ reroutes traffic from lowly utilized links and aggregate said traffic onto highly utilized links, whilst minimizing any changes to the corresponding egress router of a given destination. In addition, HotPLUZ considers link utilization in order to avoid packet loss and high latencies. Our experimental results indicate an overall saving of up to 21% under low network load.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-428222023-02-27T07:34:26Z HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach Ruiz-Rivera, A. Chin, K. Raad, R. Soh, Sie Teng Abbas Jamalipour Der-Jiunn Deng hot-potato routing power savings green OSPF BGP-aware Green IGP-WO Green networking techniques aim to shut down the least utilized links and/or routers during off-peaks hours. In this paper, we show that such techniques negatively impact the operation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). We quantify the impacts of two representative green approaches: (i) GAES, a green technique that modifies link weights, and (ii) ESOL, a green technique that does not involve link weights adjustments. Experiments over the Abilene, AT&T, GEANT and SURFnet topologies show that when using GAES, routing changes and the proportion of rerouted traffic, both of which affect BGP, are in the order of 108% and 141% greater than ESOL. Therefore, we propose Hot Potato Low UtiliZation (HotPLUZ), a greenapproach that takes hot-potato routing into account. HotPLUZ reroutes traffic from lowly utilized links and aggregate said traffic onto highly utilized links, whilst minimizing any changes to the corresponding egress router of a given destination. In addition, HotPLUZ considers link utilization in order to avoid packet loss and high latencies. Our experimental results indicate an overall saving of up to 21% under low network load. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42822 10.1109/ICC.2014.6883900 IEEE restricted
spellingShingle hot-potato routing
power savings
green OSPF
BGP-aware
Green IGP-WO
Ruiz-Rivera, A.
Chin, K.
Raad, R.
Soh, Sie Teng
HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach
title HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach
title_full HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach
title_fullStr HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach
title_full_unstemmed HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach
title_short HotPLUZ: A BGP-aware Green Traffic Engineering Approach
title_sort hotpluz: a bgp-aware green traffic engineering approach
topic hot-potato routing
power savings
green OSPF
BGP-aware
Green IGP-WO
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42822