In a collaboration with Cisco spanning several years, Prof. Olivier Bonaventure and Pierre Francois of the IP Networking Lab at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, have been investigating the convergence of routing protocols, including IS-IS, BGP, and OSPF. The work has produced one patent and several conference and journal articles, including:
Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. Avoiding transient loops during IGP Convergence in IP Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, March 2005.
Pierre Francois, Clarence Filsfils, John Evans and Olivier Bonaventure. Achieving sub-second IGP convergence in large IP networks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 35(3):33-44, July 2005.
Pierre François, Mike Shand and Olivier Bonaventure. Disruption-free topology reconfiguration in OSPF Networks. IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, USA, May 2007. INFOCOM 2007 Best Paper Award.
Pierre Francois, Olivier Bonaventure, Mike Shand, Stewart Bryant and Stefano Previdi. Loop-free convergence using oFIB. Internet Draft, draft-ietf-rtgwg-ordered-fib-01.txt, July 2007.
Olivier Bonaventure, Clarence Filsfils and Pierre Francois. Achieving Sub-50 Milliseconds Recovery Upon BGP Peering Link Failures. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 15(5):1123 - 1135, October 2007.
Cisco Research has supported extensions to the NS2 network simulator by researchers at EPCC, the supercomputing center at The University of Edinburgh, working with Cisco Fellow Fred Baker. NS2 is widely used by
Cisco engineers, as well as by many of our customers and the Internet community at large.
At the "Routing in Next Generation" (RiNG) workshop (13-14 December 2007, Madrid) the paper "An Architecture for Metarouting" was presented by John Billings, a 3rd-year PhD student at Cambridge. Dr. Tim Griffin, a University Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory, is directing Mr. Billings' research, supported in part by a gift from the Cisco Collaborative Research Initiative. Cisco Fellow David Ward is the Sponsor of the Metarouting research award to Cambridge.
at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, have been investigating the convergence of routing protocols, including IS-IS, BGP, and OSPF. The work has produced one patent and several conference and journal articles, including:
