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CAIDA Posters
In order to promote a better understanding of the Internet, CAIDA develops new visualization techniques to display Internet data and presents them as poster-sized prints for the research community. These posters are made available for download below.
|  AS Core    Backscatter    DNS    Security    Ark    Heatmaps    IPv4 BGP Geopolitical Analysis  |

AS CORE
Visualization represents a macroscopic snapshot of the Internet for a two interval. The graph reflects IP addresses and IP links (immediately adjacent addresses in a traceroute-like path) of topology data gathered from 22 monitors probing destinations spread across globally routable network prefixes. For more information, see Visualizing IPv4 and IPv6 Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale
January 2008 IPv4
ascore-simple.2008 (3622x2638)
April 2004
poster_ascore_20040406 (2160x2592)
August 2003
poster_ascore_20030804 (2160x2592)
April 2005
ascore-ipv4.20050404-36x39 (2160x2592)
December 2000
ascore_poster_0012d (2160x2592)
March 2005 IPv6
ascore.ipv6.200503-39x36 (2160x2592)
September 2002
poster_ascore_2002sept (2160x2592)
April 2005 IPv4 and IPv6
20050404_ipv4v6 (1267x853)

BACKSCATTER
Visualization represents the monitoring of global Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks from a single locations. Backscatter analysis is a novel technique that provides DoS activity using only local monitors.
March 2003
poster_backscatter_200303 (1944x2952)
September 2001
poster_backscatter_200109 (1944x2952)

DNS
CAIDA seeks to characterize the dynamics and performance of the Domain Name System (DNS), a critical infrastructural component of the Internet. We also collect data in support of long-term research of the DNS behavior and stability. To see more about CAIDA's DNS efforts, see the DNS Research page.
DNS Root Influence Map 2006
influence.map (150x104)
DNS Root Influence Map 2006 v1.0
influence-map.v1.0 (150x104)

SECURITY
Security research at CAIDA includes analysis of network-based attacks e.g. denial-of-service attacks, data hosting and provision, and measurement and statistical analysis of the trends and impact that certain Internet worms and viruses have on the global network infrastructure.
CAIDA Analysis of Mailcious Software
poster_analysis_malicious_software_20070124 (150x104)

Ark
Archipelago (Ark for short) is CAIDA's next-generation active measurement infrastructure and represents an evolution of the skitter infrastructure that has been serving the network research community for more than 8 years. For more information, see the Archipelago Measurement Infrastructure.
ARK Poster
ark_poster4b(market) (2331x1616)

Wed Nov 26 15:26:00 2008
original - .png - 983 kb


Heatmaps
A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors.
IPv4 2006 Census Map
id-consumption_census-map_20061108 (5120x4096)

Wed Jul 22 16:08:19 2009
original - .png - 5559 kb

IPv4 WHOIS Map 2007
id-consumption_whois-map-20071001 (5120x4096)

Wed Jul 22 16:12:17 2009
original - .png - 1962 kb


IPv4 BGP Geopolitical Analysis
The worldwide distribution of Internet resources and address space is highly non-uniform. We present an analysis comparing five demographic measures against three measures of Internet resources, stratified by continent with substratification by country. We found that two continents and one country consume a much larger share of Internet resource allocation than predicted by their demographic measures of size. For more information see IPv4 BGP Geopolitical Analysis
IPv4 Analysis
bgp_20030918_1280x1707 (1280x1707)

Wed Jan 31 09:50:14 2007
original - .gif - 576 kb

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