Project Summary

Co-location (interconnection) infrastructures exist in every major city, supporting thousands of interconnections between networks all over the globe. These infrastructures are well provisioned and managed, but outages are expected, e.g., due to power failures, human errors, attacks, and natural disasters. In this project, we will refine our novel and lightweight methodology for detecting peering infrastructure outages. Our methodology relies on the observation that BGP communities, announced with routing updates, are an excellent source of information allowing us to pinpoint outage locations with high accuracy. Our study promises to provide a unique view of the behavior of the Internet under stress that often goes unreported.

Statement of Work

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#	Subtask	Date	Status
Task 1: Develop and document method for constructing BGP community dictionary
	Deliverable: Dataset: BGP Community Dictionary	Sep 2017	done
1.1	Construct initial dictionary (data set)	Aug 2017	done
1.2	Contribute data set to IMPACT repository	Sep 2017	done
1.3	Document method for constructing data set	Sep 2017	done
Task 2: Test and evaluate method to detect peering infrastructure outages
	Deliverable: Report of methodology for detecting peering infrastructure outages	Dec 2017	done
2.1	Input module: Data preprocessing	Jul 2017
2.2	Monitoring module: outage detection	Aug 2017
2.3	Outage signal investigation	Oct 2017
2.4	Data plane analysis	Nov 2017
Task 3: Evaluate the results
	Deliverable: Report on implications of results for critical infrastructure resilience	May 2018
3.1	Analyze efficiency and coverage	Jan 2018
3.2	Analyze accuracy	Feb 2018
Task 4: Describe implications for critical infrastructure protection
	Deliverable: Final Report	Jun 2018

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End Users Engaged

CAIDA is an active participant in the DHS Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust (IMPACT) project. We will use IMPACT and the appropriate technical disclosure controls it provides to share privacy-respecting forms of the collected and produced data with vetted users of the IMPACT portal.

Technology Transition Plan

CAIDA embraces open source software licenses as an appropriate channel for technology transfer of results of our research and development efforts to benefit the public and the nation. We will make software tools from this project available with an open source license consistent with university policy.

Acknowledgment of awarding agency's support

This material is based upon work supported by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security under Grant Award Number 2015-ST-061-CIRC01. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.