BGP Neighbor Trust Establishment Mechanism Based on the Bargaining Game

• Main Authors: Peipei Li, Bin Lu, Daofeng Li
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
• Series: Information
• Subjects: Border Gateway Protocol; bargaining game; neighbor; trust; gray correlation algorithm
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/12/3/110

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the standard inter-domain route protocol on the Internet. Autonomous System (AS) traffic is forwarded by the BGP neighbors. In the route selection, if there are malicious or inactive neighbors, it will affect the network’s performance or even cause the network to crash. Therefore, choosing trusted and safe neighbors is an essential part of BGP security research. In response to such a problem, in this paper we propose a BGP Neighbor Trust Establishment Mechanism based on the Bargaining Game (BNTE-BG). By combining service quality attributes such as bandwidth, packet loss rate, jitter, delay, and price with bargaining game theory, it allows the AS to select trusted neighbors which satisfy the Quality of Service independently. When the trusted neighbors are forwarding data, we draw on the gray correlation algorithm to calculate neighbors’ behavioral trust and detect malicious or inactive BGP neighbors.