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

• Internet measurement: state of DeUnion
• skitter sample analysis code
• skitter daily summaries