@inproceedings {Cit2014, title = {On the Quality of BGP Route Collectors for iBGP Policy Inference}, booktitle = {IFIP Networking}, year = {2014}, month = {June 2014}, abstract = {

A significant portion of what is known about Internet routing stems out from\ public BGP datasets. For this reason, numerous research efforts were devoted to\ (i) assessing the (in)completeness of the datasets, (ii) identifying biases\ in the dataset, and (iii) augmenting data quality by optimally placing new\ collectors. However, those studies focused on techniques to extract information\ about the AS-level Internet topology.

In this paper, we show that considering different metrics influences the\ conclusions about biases and collector placement. Namely, we compare AS-level\ topology discovery with \iac inference. We find that the same datasets exhibit\ significantly diverse biases for these two metrics. For example, the sensitivity\ to the number and position of collectors is noticeably different. Moreover, for\ both metrics, the marginal utility of adding a new collector is strongly\ localized with respect to the proximity of the collector. Our results suggest\ that the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}optimal{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} position for new collectors can only be defined with\ respect to a specific metric, hence posing a fundamental trade-off for\ maximizing the utility of extensions to the BGP data collection infrastructure.

}, keywords = {bias, iBGP policies, measurement, network topology}, author = {Luca Cittadini and Stefano Vissichio and Benoit Donnet} } @article {Tra2013d, title = {mPlane Architecture Specification}, number = {D1.3}, year = {2013}, month = {11/2013}, institution = {mPlane Consortium}, type = {Public Deliverable}, address = {Torino}, keywords = {architecture, measurement, platform, scenario, use case}, author = {Brian Trammell and Marco Mellia and Alessandro Finamore and Stefano Traverso and Tivadar Szemethy and Balazs Szabo and D Rossi and Benoit Donnet and Fabrizio Invernizzi and Dimitri Papadimitriou} }