2018 , Elguea, Lorenzo M. , Martínez Ríos, Félix Orlando
Latency on Internet mainly depends on the distance that packets travel in WAN networks1. This latency can be reduced if the hops between autonomous systems are reduced. This is the main function of the BGP protocol that is used by default in all the ISPs, but the lack of announcement of some network segments causes some routes to increase. This paper proposes a simple method to detect the routes that can be optimized and also a method using SDN to correct them. The first step is to determine which routes can be optimized, that is, those that are sent to a neighbor when they travel the greater distance, although this can not be determined by the router since it does not analyze all the routes that BGP receives in context. The second step is to add the new routes to the router, also by BGP, so that the router uses them. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2019 , Elguea, Lorenzo M. , Martínez Ríos, Félix Orlando
Through Software Defined Network, routes obtained through Border Gateway Protocol can be modified to improve latency or select a shorter path. With the same tool that perform the above actions, you can modify routes, for example, to avoid autonomous systems in certain countries or some other policy that may help, for example, security. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.