Cartography

CAIDA's efforts in mapping and visualizing the Internet since its earlier Macroscopic Topology Measurements project.

Funding Support

Support for the Cartography project is provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) cooperative agreement HR00112020014 Performance Evaluation Network Measurements and Analytics and the National Science Foundation (NSF) grants CNS-1901517 Strategies for Large-Scale IPv6 Active Mapping, CNS-1925729 Facilitating Advances in Network Topology Analysis, and OAC-1724853 Integrated Platform for Applied Network Data Analysis. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation thereon. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of DARPA, NSF, or the U.S. Government.

Additional Content

IPv4 and IPv6 AS Core: Visualizing IPv4 and IPv6 Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale

Since 2000, CAIDA has generated AS Core graphs – Internet Topology Maps also referred to as AS-level Internet Graphs – in order to visualize the shifting topology of the Internet over time.