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Topology Data
This section summarizes available Internet topology data sources and how they are used.
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Available Datasets

skitter

  • Beginning Aug 1997 with 4-5 monitors, 60K destinations
  • Since Mar 2001: 17 monitors, 400K destinations
  • traceroute + RTT
  • Analysis tools = iffinder, arts file format analyzers

NLANR MOAT AMP

  • traceroute (10min interval) + ping (1 min interval)
  • full mesh among 100 Internet2 sites (VBNS/Abilene campuses)
  • M Faloutsos: there are end-to-end delays, so couldn't measure one-way delay

Surveyor

  • traceroute + one-way delay (ippm)
  • full mesh of 51 monitors

RIPE

  • traceroute + one-way delay (ippm)
  • limited to RIPE customers

Mercator

  • informed, random address probing
  • one source
  • july 99 = 3 weeks discussed in Infocomm 00 paper
  • Infocomm 01 paper?
  • one-shots, not operational

Cheswick

  • traceroutes to IP prefixes
  • one source
  • two years of continuous data
  • 30% of BGP prefixes
  • destination coverage better for ATT/Lucent address space
  • 1 snapshot / 6 months

NIST XIWT/IPERF

  • 2 years
  • 17 commercial sites
  • traceroute (30 min. interval) to 1.7M paths
  • pingER (30 min. interval) 8.5M pings
  • postgres database
  • NIST site has pings (10 pings, 100 & 1k bytes)

Analysis Methods

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