Seamless BGP Migration with Router Grafting

Network operators are under tremendous pressure to make their networks highly reliable to avoid service disruptions. Yet, operators often need to change the network to upgrade faulty equipment, deploy new services, and install new routers. Unfortunately, changes cause disruptions, forcing a trade-off between the benefit of the change and the disruption it will cause. In this paper we present router grafting, where parts of a router are seamlessly removed from one router and merged into another. We focus on grafting a BGP session and the underlying link

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: NSDI
• Authors: Eric Keller, Jennifer Rexford, Jacobus E. van der Merwe
• Keywords: BGP Session, Computer Networks, Grafting, NSDI 2010, Router