Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons
Thomas Alfroy , Thomas Holterbach , Thomas Krenc , KC Claffy and Cristel Pelsser
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
- External Link
- https://doi.org/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
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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