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Traceroute Probe Method 2008-08 Dataset

This dataset is useful for studying the effects that the choice of a traceroute probing method has on the inferred IP path. Several traceroute probe methods exist, each designed to perform better in a scenario where another fails. This dataset contains traceroute paths from 8 vantage points on Archipelago to a variety of destinations using up to 6 different probing methods per destination. This is the dataset analyzed in the IMC 2008 paper, Traceroute Probe Method and Forward IP Path Inference.

Dataset Access

The raw scamper warts files are freely downloadable. Please see the DatCat entries for this dataset for a description of the available files.

Analysis Tools

You can analyze this data (available in the warts format) with the sc_analysis_dump tool included in the scamper distribution package. The source code of the exact version of scamper (scamper-cvs-20080808) used to create this dataset is available locally in the data download directory.

The sc_analysis_dump tool prints out information about each trace in an easy-to-parse textual format (one trace per line). You would typically write a perl script to analyze the output of sc_analysis_dump.

Another tool you may want to consider is the warts-dump tool, which is also included in the scamper distribution. The output of warts-dump is somewhat less easy to parse, but warts-dump prints out practically all information contained in a warts file.

Finally, you can write your analysis scripts in the Ruby language using rb-wartslib, an easy-to-use Ruby binding to the warts I/O library.

Other Topology Datasets:

• Freely Available Datasets
  • IPv4 Routed /24 AS Links (September 2007 - ongoing)
  • Skitter AS Links (January 2000 - February 2008)
  • Router Adjacencies
  • AS Rank
  • AS Relationships
  • AS Taxonomy
• Restricted Access Datasets
  • Skitter Macroscopic Topology Data
  • Internet Topology Data Kit (ITDK) - April 2003

References

For more information on topology measurements see:

• Skitter macroscopic topology measurements
• Scamper home page
• Paris traceroute
• iPlane path measurements
• NetDimes Internet mapping project
• University of Oregon Route Views Project

For more information on the Archipelago (Ark) Measurement Infrastructure, see:

• http://www.caida.org/projects/ark/

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Matthew Luckie for development of and assistance with scamper.

The Traceroute Probe Method 2008-08 Dataset was sponsored by:

• National Science Foundation
• Department of Homeland Security
• WIDE Project
• Cisco Systems

and the New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST) contract UOWX0705.