Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons

Thomas Alfroy , Thomas Holterbach , Thomas Krenc , KC Claffy and Cristel Pelsser

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This 2023 international conference paper, by Thomas Alfroy and 4 coauthors, was presented at Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks HotNets. Topics covered include bgp, routing security, and internet measurement.

Full author list: Thomas Alfroy, Thomas Holterbach, Thomas Krenc, KC Claffy, and Cristel Pelsser.

Abstract

Dramatic growth in Internet connectivity poses a challenge for the resource-constrained data collection efforts that support scientific and operational analysis of interdomain routing. Inspired by tradeoffs made in other disciplines, we explore a fundamental reconceptualization to how we design public BGP data collection architectures: an overshoot-and-discard approach that can accommodate an order of magnitude increase in vantage points by discarding redundant data shortly after its collection. As defining redundant depends on the context, we design algorithms that filter redundant updates without optimizing for one objective, and evaluate our approach in terms of detecting two noteworthy phenomena using BGP data: AS-topology mapping and hijacks. Our approach can generalize to other types of Internet data (e.g., traceroute, traffic). We offer this study as a first step to a potentially new area of Internet measurement research.

Publication Details

Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
November 2023
Published In
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks HotNets
Pages
102--108
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Location
, Cambridge, MA, USA,
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1145/3626111.3628202

Suggested citation

Thomas Alfroy, Thomas Holterbach, Thomas Krenc, KC Claffy, and Cristel Pelsser. 2023. Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks HotNets. Association for Computing Machinery, , Cambridge, MA, USA,, 102–108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626111.3628202

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{Alfroy2023,
	title        = {Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons},
	author       = {Alfroy, Thomas and Holterbach, Thomas and Krenc, Thomas and Claffy, KC and Pelsser, Cristel},
	year         = 2023,
	month        = nov,
	booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks {HotNets}},
	location     = {, Cambridge, MA, USA,},
	publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
	address      = {New York, NY, USA},
	series       = {HotNets '23},
	pages        = {102--108},
	doi          = {10.1145/3626111.3628202},
	isbn         = 9798400704154,
	url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3626111.3628202},
	abstract     = {Dramatic growth in Internet connectivity poses a challenge for the resource-constrained data collection efforts that support scientific and operational analysis of interdomain routing. Inspired by tradeoffs made in other disciplines, we explore a fundamental reconceptualization to how we design public BGP data collection architectures: an overshoot-and-discard approach that can accommodate an order of magnitude increase in vantage points by discarding redundant data shortly after its collection. As defining redundant depends on the context, we design algorithms that filter redundant updates without optimizing for one objective, and evaluate our approach in terms of detecting two noteworthy phenomena using BGP data: AS-topology mapping and hijacks. Our approach can generalize to other types of Internet data (e.g., traceroute, traffic). We offer this study as a first step to a potentially new area of Internet measurement research.},
	groups       = {International Conferences},
	keywords     = {BGP, Routing Security, Internet measurement},
	numpages     = 7
}

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