Forecasting the Impact of IXP Outages Using Anycast

Leandro Marcio Bertholdo; Joao Marcelo Ceron; Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville; Roland Martijn van Rijswijk - Deij

Forecasting the Impact of IXP Outages Using Anycast

Leandro Marcio Bertholdo^*, Joao Marcelo Ceron, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Roland Martijn van Rijswijk - Deij

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Abstract

Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) play a major role in Internet connectivity. They provide an infrastructure for traffic exchange, attracting Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and cloud providers, leading to a plethora of options for network operators to connect. Alongside, policymakers are interested in understanding how failures of these infrastructures could affect the cyber economy. In this paper, we propose a new method based on anycast to assess the importance of IXPs in terms of coverage and regional representativeness with the goal of predicting the impact of IXP failures.
We deployed an anycast infrastructure to connect to major IXPs, simulate outages, and map the impact of such failures. Our
experiments show that our methodology can predict how the traffic flows when one IXP goes down, helping operators get prepared to deal with these events, and add more information to better assess the importance of IXPs as a critical infrastructure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
Publisher	IFIP
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-903176-27-0
Publication status	Published - 14 Sept 2021
Event	5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, TMA 2021 - Virtual Duration: 14 Sept 2021 → 15 Sept 2021 Conference number: 5

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Conference	5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, TMA 2021
Abbreviated title	TMA 2021
City	Virtual
Period	14/09/21 → 15/09/21

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