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CommunityWatch: The Swiss-Army Knife of BGP Anomaly Detection

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ANRW '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Applied Networking Research Workshop

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3232755.3232858

Published: 16 July 2018 Publication History

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We present CommunityWatch, an open-source system that enables timely and accurate detection of BGP routing anomalies. CommunityWatch leverages meta-data encoded by AS operators on their advertised routes through the BGP Communities attribute. The BGP Communities values lack standardized semantics, offering the flexibility to attach a wide range of information, including AS relationships, location data, and route redistribution policies. Therefore, parsing and correlating Community values and their dynamics enables the detection and tracking of a variety of routing anomalies. We exhibit the efficacy of CommunityWatch through the detection of three different types of anomalies: infrastructure outages, route leaks, and traffic blackholing.

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CommunityWatch: The Swiss-Army Knife of BGP Anomaly Detection
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ANRW '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Applied Networking Research Workshop

July 2018

102 pages

ISBN:9781450355858

DOI:10.1145/3232755

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