BGP Communities: Analysis of Adoption and Dataset Creation

• Andrei Pochmann Koenich UFRGS
• Arthur Vinícius Cunha Camargo UFRGS
• Leandro Marcio Bertholdo UFRGS
• Renan Paredes Barreto FURG
• Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville UFRGS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/errc.2025.17607

Resumo

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) communities enable autonomous systems (ASes) to perform traffic engineering, route selection, and routing coordination between their transit providers and peers. However, the heterogeneous and poorly standardized community use complicates routing automation efforts. In this paper, we present BGPScout, an application designed to automate the collection, interpretation, and consolidation of BGP community data from public sources. Using web scraping and natural language processing (NLP) techniques, BGPScout organizes information about traffic engineering communities, producing a consistent dataset that aims to support network automation and analysis activities.

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