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Convergence is a crucial challenge for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). The lower convergence time can improve network performance attributes such as end-to-end delay and throughput. In literature, various studies suggested that MRAI timers improve the convergence in iBGP. The effect of MRAI timer examined extensively in past. However, we found very less literature on the effect of MRAI timer in iBGP route reflectors. Route reflectors avoid too many iBGP sessions in the internal BGP. However, it creates many routing paths in iBGP. Moreover, when there is a change in the topology, the sharing of updates very frequently degrades convergence in the route reflectors. Therefore, this paper measures the effect of adjustable MRAI timer and suggests for better convergence in iBGP route reflectors. We measured the performance parameters convergence time, the number of exchanged updates, throughput, and delay using adjustable MRAI timer and compared with standard BGP.
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Shukla, S., Kumar, M. (2018). Improving Convergence in iBGP Route Reflectors. In: Kalam, A., Das, S., Sharma, K. (eds) Advances in Electronics, Communication and Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 443. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4765-7_40
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