oFIQUIC: Leveraging QUIC in OSPF for seamless network topology changes
2024 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) · 2024
Abstract
Link state-routing protocols such as OSPF and ISIS are used in most if not all Internet Service Provider and enterprise networks. They both rely on flooding to distribute the network topology to all routers. Upon topology changes, all routers update their forwarding tables asynchronously which leads to transient events such as micro-loops and packet losses. We propose two improvements to OSPF in an extension called oFIQUIC. First, we use QUIC to exchange routing information between neighboring routers. Second, we revisit the OSPF flooding process. Instead of relying entirely on flooding to distribute topology changes, we establish secure remote QUIC sessions with distant OSPF routers to inform them of topology changes. This enables oFIQUIC to prevent transient loops by ordering the updates of the forwarding tables of all routers after a topology change. We add oFIQUIC to the BIRD implementation of OSPF. Our evaluation demonstrates that oFIQUIC prevents loops and converges quickly in different topologies.
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Cite (BibTeX)
@inproceedings{Rybowski2024,
title = {oFIQUIC: Leveraging QUIC in OSPF for seamless network topology
changes},
author = {Rybowski, Nicolas and Pelsser, Cristel and Bonaventure, Olivier},
year = 2024,
booktitle = {IFIP Networking Conference},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/286860},
note = {Available at GitHub: \url{
https://github.com/nrybowski/ofiquic-artefacts}},
organization = {IFIP},
abstract = {Link state-routing protocols such as OSPF and ISIS are used in
most if not all Internet Service Provider and enterprise
networks. They both rely on flooding to distribute the network
topology to all routers. Upon topology changes, all routers
update their forwarding tables asynchronously which leads to
transient events such as micro-loops and packet losses. We
propose two improvements to OSPF in an extension called oFIQUIC.
First, we use QUIC to exchange routing information between
neighboring routers. Second, we revisit the OSPF flooding
process. Instead of relying entirely on flooding to distribute
topology changes, we establish secure remote QUIC sessions with
distant OSPF routers to inform them of topology changes. This
enables oFIQUIC to prevent transient loops by ordering the
updates of the forwarding tables of all routers after a topology
change. We add oFIQUIC to the BIRD implementation of OSPF. Our
evaluation demonstrates that oFIQUIC prevents loops and converges
quickly in different topologies.},
affiliation = {UCL - SST/ICTM/INGI - Pôle en ingénierie informatique},
groups = {International Conferences},
keywords = {OSPF, IS-IS, routing protocols},
}