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Protocol failure manifests itself in terms of route oscillations, routing loops, starvation (i.e., data traffic destined for a network or host is forwarded to a part of the network that cannot deliver it), network segmentation, and increased packet latencies (delays). The remainder of this section discusses BGP routing issues that derive from airplanes being in different ASs than other airplane or ground systems. This discussion presumes that each airplane will comprise its own AS. Because of this, aircraft will need to leverage the BGP protocol to remain connected to other air or ground entities. Readers not actively interested in BGP issues are encouraged to skip the remainder of this section. A growing body of research currently identifies mechanisms (e.g., cross-layer feedback [59-61]) to improve lower layer and IGP routing performance in highly mobile wireless IP environments. However, EGP routing within such environments has only recently begun to be studied [62]. Because it is anticipated that civilian aircraft will operate in different ASs than the ground or aircraft entities with which they communicate, the wireless links between aircraft and ground stations will need to support EGP routing. Inter-AS connectivity almost always occurs within IP environments today using BGP. Because BGP links two ASs together and because the AS is the unit of routing policy within the IP topology hierarchy (e.g., each AS has its own security and administrative requirements), BGP is designed to handle policy issues. Correctly reflecting these policies potentially complicates the configuration of the BGP connections, because they often reflect formal, legal contractual relationships established between those two organizations (i.e., corporations, governments). Specifically, BGP connections need to be well engineered and anticipated in advance [63] (i.e., it is not a reactive protocol) so that the specific configurations for each pairwise connection can be correctly orchestrated by both communicating peers. BGP has the undesirable characteristic that a small routing change is propagated globally, delaying routing convergence system-wide (see [64-66]) in the resulting network-of-networks. Mobility and movement may cause signal intermittencies, attenuation, and loss on the BGP connections that link ASs together, potentially causing system instability. While BGP is slow to detect changes and restore routing, shortening the BGP timers improves upon invalid and missing routes but creates much higher protocol traffic overhead and possible protocol instability. Because BGP was designed to be deployed within wired network environments, it exhibits a certain amount of brittleness when deployed across wireless links. Specifically, BGP was designed to support very stable interdomain connection environments. These assumptions may become challenged in environments where ASs move in relationship with each other. There are three issues that are particularly significant: • Signal intermittence events may exceed the BGP timer values. When a BGP peer fails to receive “KeepAlive” messages from its neighbor, it will expire routes that use the 64
neighbor as a next hop after “HoldTime” seconds. 17 If the timer values are increased to reduce the number of these time outs, then the responsiveness of the protocol is also reduced, including the time interval it takes for the remote peer to discover that the connection has been broken and, therefore, stop needlessly wasting wireless bandwidth by sending nondeliverable packets across that link. • BGP can only establish well-known, pairwise connections (i.e., it cannot support meshes) and lacks a peer discovery mechanism. Therefore, as ASs move in relationship with each other, the possibility exists that the communicating peers will move out of range of each other. If this happens, then the BGP connection is dropped, even if other routers within the peer AS are still within transmission range of the aircraft. This connectivity brittleness is a primary difficulty of using BGP in mobile environments. • Since BGP does not have a peer discovery capability, the AS boundary routers (ASBR) that host BGP communications need to be configured to connect to other ASBRs within their (remote) peer ASs where connectivity is anticipated to be needed during flight planning. Once such connectivity has been anticipated (i.e., the ASBRs for all ASs within the flight plan need to be correctly configured to enable each pairwise connectivity relationship), these connections can either be turned on in advance or turned on via a coordinated out-of-band mechanism during flight. The later alternative runs the risk of undergoing the loss of connectivity while the previous AS connections are torn down and the new AS connections established. If the aircraft is moving slowly enough, and the ground systems are positioned closely enough, it may be possible to accomplish this transaction while the aircraft is in range of both ground system locations, thereby avoiding loss of communications. However, a key point to recognize is that active BGP connections (i.e., unless the BGP connections on both sides are turned off) continue to attempt to connect with their peers even when they are physically out of range of each other, thereby needlessly wasting wireless network capacity. The second and third issues can be theoretically mitigated by establishing BGP relationships between ASs across satellite links. As long as each BGP peer remains within the satellite’s beam, the entity is not moving from the satellite’s perspective. Since satellite beams can be geographically quite large, this may be an attractive solution for airborne environments. However, the benefit is reduced if the aircraft or ground station is near the edge of a beam, if geographical movement exceeds the beam’s diameter in unforeseen ways, if the cumulative user capacity exceeds the cumulative satellite capacity of that geographic region, or if the satellite becomes unavailable. There is also the issue of mitigating adverse IP and TCP reactions to geo-stationary satellite latencies. For example, BGP itself runs over TCP transports. It is possible that other air-to-ground or air-to-air communications also run over TCP transports as well. Unfortunately, TCP treats latency as being network congestion. Thus, TCP inappropriately backs off its transmission rate for their sessions in response to geo-synchronous latency, reducing the efficiency of those links, unless mitigation techniques have been introduced into the system to address this issue. 17 The RFC 1771-recommended BGP timer values are 120 seconds for ConnectRetry, 90 seconds for HoldTime, and 30 seconds for KeepAlive. 65
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11.1 Findings and Recommendations 1
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This report states that the primary
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protocol (IP)-based communications.
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of linking aircraft-resident system
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