Approche Récursive d'Etiquetage des Chemins Alternatifs au Niveau IP
Presented at the Colloque Francophone d'Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP) in November 2006

Benoit Donnet
Université Pierre & Marie Curie
Laboratoire LiP6/CNRS, UMR 7606, Paris, France
and
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis - CAIDA
San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California, San Diego

Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis - CAIDA
San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California, San Diego

Timur Friedman
Université Pierre & Marie Curie
Laboratoire LiP6/CNRS, UMR 7606, Paris, France

ABSTRACT. A diamond refers to the existence of several alternative paths between two points in the network. This notion plays an important role in traffic engineering where it is needed, for instance, to balance the traffic load between several paths. These diamonds might be found at the AS level or the IP level. This paper is interested in the IP level and proposes a recursive labelling method for diamonds, RLPA. In this paper, we show, on a subset of skitter data, that diamonds are mainly composed of a single intermediate node, have two edges, are basically symmetrical and are located between 10 and 15 hops from the traceroute source.