Utilizing Duplicate Announcements for BGP Anomaly Detection

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the backbone of inter-domain routing on the internet, but its susceptibility to both benign and malicious anomalies creates substantial risks to both network reliability and security. In this study, we present a new approach for deep learning-based BGP anomaly de...

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Main Authors: Rahul Deo Verma, Pankaj Kumar Keserwani, Vinesh Kumar Jain, Mahesh Chandra Govil, Valmik Tilwari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-02-01
Series:Telecom
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4001/6/1/11
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Summary:The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the backbone of inter-domain routing on the internet, but its susceptibility to both benign and malicious anomalies creates substantial risks to both network reliability and security. In this study, we present a new approach for deep learning-based BGP anomaly detection utilizing duplicate announcements, which are known to be a symptom of routing disruptions. We developed our methodology based on public BGP data from RIPE and Route Views. We used the number of duplicate announcements as a baseline against which we checked for sporadic and time-based anomalies. Here, we propose a deep learning framework based on the Exponential Moving Average (EMA) model in combination with Autoencoder for anomaly identification. We also apply the Temporal-oriented Synthetic Minority Over-Sampling Technique (T-SMOTE) to overcome data imbalance. Comparative evaluations show that the Autoencoder model is significantly better than LSTM and that existing state-of-the-art methods have higher accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 scores. This study proposes a reliable, scalable, and rapid framework for real-time BGP adversary detection, which improves network security and resilience.
ISSN:2673-4001