Uncovering Blackholes: Advanced Detection Techniques for Complex Networks#

Anton Elita

• Why: Blackholing events (traffic blackholes from routing failures) are among the most disruptive network incidents — this talk presents detection and correlation techniques relevant to network operations and monitoring.
• What: Methods for detecting blackholing events, identifying affected transit flows, and analyzing correlations to reduce response times. Aimed at accelerating root cause identification for events that typically require manual intervention and vendor advanced support.
• How: Not specified in the abstract — the talk promises multiple detection methods and correlation analysis. (from abstract only)
• Where applicable: Complex networks with multiple transit flows where blackholing events are hard to localize. General network operations relevance.