Beyond-Right BGP for Utilizing Hidden Private Peering Links in the Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet

Abstract

Today' s Internet supports a much richer private peering fabric than was previously assumed, but the existing inter-domain routing protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), does not have a mechanism to route network traffic through peering links nor has a mechanism to provide incentives to the owners of peering links to share their peeing links for public network transit service. This paper proposes a new routing protocol, Beyond-Right BGP (“BR-BGP”), to utilize hidden private peering links for inter-domain routing in the Internet, as well as a mechanism, Multi-Layer Payment Broker Architecture (MLPBA) to provide incentives to the owners of hidden private peering links to share their peering links for public transit service in a scalable manner. BR-BGP is designed with its emphases on scalability in path disseminations, signaling for path setups, and packet forwarding through peering links. Another contribution of this paper, MLPBS, is designed with its emphasis on scalability in tallying the network traffic through peering links, and in transaction fees for settling network traffic through peering links.