Dynamic Traceroute Visualization at Multiple Abstraction Levels

Candela, Massimo; Bartolomeo, Marco Di; Battista, Giuseppe Di; Squarcella, Claudio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_43

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“…A number of independent researchers have leverged this facility to perform studies using active measurements. For instance, Massimo Candela et al in [75] demonstrate a system, called TPLAY that can be used to visualize traceroute measurements performed by the RIPE Atlas probes. The visualization is a radial representation of a clustered graph where routers 21 https:// atlas.ripe.net/ results/ graphs 22 https:// atlas.ripe.net/ docs/ rest 23 https:// atlas.ripe.net/ results/ analyses This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited.…”

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“…OpenWrt-based TP-Link routers (previously Lantronix XPort Pro modules) [75], [15], [76], [78], [79], [81], [82] + http: //atlas.ripe. net/results/ analyses OPERATIONAL SUPPORT RIPE TTM ∼ 100 One-way latency, packet loss, jitter, root-nameserver reachability, routing statistics, GPS satellite conditions and Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) discovery.…”

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A Survey on Internet Performance Measurement Platforms and Related Standardization Efforts

Bajpai

Schönwälder

2015

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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A number of Internet measurement platforms have emerged in the last few years. These platforms have deployed thousands of probes at strategic locations within access and backbone networks and behind residential gateways. In this paper we provide a taxonomy of these measurement platforms on the basis of their deployment use-case. We describe these platforms in detail by exploring their coverage, scale, lifetime, deployed metrics and measurement tools, architecture and overall research impact. We conclude the survey by describing current standardization efforts to make large-scale performance measurement platforms interoperable.

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A Survey on Internet Performance Measurement Platforms and Related Standardization Efforts

Bajpai

Schönwälder

2015

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…We thank RIPE NCC for collaborating to the development of the graph animation framework used in this work. A preliminary version of this paper appeared in [2] Fig. 1.…”

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Radian: Visual Exploration of Traceroutes

Candela¹,

Bartolomeo

Battista

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IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Several projects deploy probes in the Internet. Probes are systems that continuously perform traceroutes and other networking measurements (e.g., ping) towards selected targets. Measurements can be stored and analyzed to gain knowledge on several aspects of the Internet, but making sense of such data requires suitable methods and tools for exploration and visualization. We present Radian, a tool that allows to visualize traceroute paths at different levels of detail and to animate their evolution during a selected time interval. We also describe extensive tests of the tool using traceroutes performed by RIPE Atlas Internet probes.

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“…When looking at time-series of traceroute paths (where a path is a sequence of IP addresses possibly containing asterisks) with one of the many popular visualization tools (see e.g. [9]) it happens to observe paths that follow alternations that repeat several times. Have they the features of the "periodicity"?…”

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The Internet Pendulum: On the periodicity of Internet Topology Measurements

Iodice,

Candela,

Di Battista

2017

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Public databases of large-scale topology measures (e.g. RIPE Atlas) are very popular both in the research and in the practitioners communities. They are used, at least, for understanding the state of the Internet in real time, for outage detection, and to get a broad baseline view of the Internet evolution over time. However, despite the large amount of investigations, the dynamic aspects of these measures have not been fully understood. As an example, looking at time-series of such measures it happens to observe patterns that repeat at regular intervals. More specifically, looking at a time-series of traceroutes involving certain source-target pairs it happens to observe that the paths follow alternations that repeat several times. Have they the features of periodicity? What are their main characteristics? In this paper we study the problem of detecting and characterizing periodicities in Internet topology measures. For this purpose we devise an algorithm based on autocorrelation and string matching. First, we validate the effectiveness of our algorithm in-vitro, on randomly generated measures containing artificial periodicities. Second, we exploit the algorithm to verify how frequently traceroute sequences extracted from popular databases of topology measures exhibit a periodic behavior. We show that a surprisingly high percentage of measures present one or more periodicities. This happens both with traceroutes performed at different frequencies and with different types of traceroutes. Third, we apply our algorithm to databases of BGP updates, a context where periodicities are even more unexpected than the one of traceroutes. Also in this case our algorithm is able to spot periodicities. We argue that some of them are related to oscillations of the BGP control plane.

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Dynamic Traceroute Visualization at Multiple Abstraction Levels

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

A Survey on Internet Performance Measurement Platforms and Related Standardization Efforts

A Survey on Internet Performance Measurement Platforms and Related Standardization Efforts

Radian: Visual Exploration of Traceroutes

The Internet Pendulum: On the periodicity of Internet Topology Measurements

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