CAIDA Skitter Router-Level Topology Measurements

CAIDA releases the adjacency matrix of the Internet router-level graph computed from the ITDK0304 skitter data collected between Apr 21 and May 8, 2003.

Router-Level Topology and Degree Distribution

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CAIDA Skitter Router-Level Topology and Degree Distribution,
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Data Access

The two files available for download above constitute a CAIDA release of the adjacency matrix of the Internet router-level graph computed from ITDK0304 skitter and iffinder measurements. More precisely, we used the following methodology to obtain the above data:

  1. generate IP links from ITDK skitter traces;
  2. merge interface aliases found with iffinder into routers;
  3. map IP links to router links;
  4. remove all nodes with either in-degree 0 or out-degree 0 (note that the majority of nodes removed this way are end hosts);
  5. anonymize IP addresses.

The first data file holds link directions corresponding to the traceroute directions, while the second file is an undirected version of the first file. There are a total of 192,244 nodes, 636,643 directed links, and 609,066 undirected links. The average and maximum node degrees (undirected) are 6.34 and 1,071 respectively, and the node degree distribution is plotted below:

Related Objects

See https://catalog.caida.org/dataset/skitter_router_adjacencies to explore related objects to this document in the CAIDA Resource Catalog.
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