Measuring ISP topologies with Rocketfuel

By Neil T. Spring, Ratul Mahajan, David Wetherall. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications

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SEATTLE: A Scalable Ethernet Architecture for Large Enterprises (2011, positive): “AP-small (AS 3967) is a small access provider network consisting of 87 routers, and AP-large (AS 1239) is a larger network with 315 routers [Spring et al. 2004].”
A framework for classifying denial of service attacks (2003, methodology): “techniques have been used before to identify multiple interfaces on routers [34] and count number of hosts behind a NAT box [4].”
Link Prediction Based on Graph Neural Networks (2018, background): “Router [41] is a router-level Internet with 5,022 nodes and 6,258 edges.”
Can ISPS and P2P users cooperate for improved performance? (2007, background): “The oracle is available to all overlay networks.”
Maestro: A System for Scalable OpenFlow Control (2010, methodology): “To provide a common basis for direct comparisons between Maestro and NOX, we run experiments on a common 79switch topology [14].”
Hop-count filtering: an effective defense against spoofed DDoS traffic (2003, background): “The recent Internet mapping efforts such as Internet Map [9], Mercator [21], Rocketfuel [40], and Skitter [10] projects, may make the approach plausible.”
Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey (2013, background): “While the number of nodes in ISP backbones is in order of hundreds ( e.g. , 471, 487, and 862 nodes in Sprintlink, AT&T, and Verio ISPs, respectively [17]), it can go up to thousands in today’s data centers ( e.g. , around 12000 servers in one Google Compute cluster [18]).”
The H-index of a network node and its relation to degree and coreness (2016, background): “Figure 1b shows the probability distribution p ( h ), deﬁned as the probability that a randomly selected node’s h ( n ) value is equal to h for the cases n ¼ 0, n ¼ 1 and n ¼ n N of the network Router.”
Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks (2013, methodology): “In our experiments, we simulate two different ISP topologies RF-I (79 nodes, 294 links) and RF-II (108 nodes, 306 links) with inter-node latencies obtained from the RocketFuel repository [13].”
Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture (2012, methodology): “For this evaluation, we use real topologies from educational backbones and the Enterprise network, and PoP-level AS topologies from Rocketfuel [38].”
On orchestrating virtual network functions (2015, methodology): “3) Middlebox and Cost Data: We have generated a 3-length middlebox sequence for each traffic based on the data provided in [2], [26].”
Caching performance of content centric networks under multi-path routing (and more) (2011, methodology): “To promote cross comparison we resort to real network topologies that are publicly available through Rocketfuel [30], so that alternative approaches can be compared on the very same set of topologies.”
Throughput-Optimal Topology Design for Cross-Silo Federated Learning (2020, methodology): “We considered three real topologies from Rocketfuel engine [94] (Exodus and Ebone) and from The Internet Topology Zoo [48] (Géant), and two synthetic topologies (AWS North-America and Gaia) built from the geographical locations of AWS data centers [38, 96] (Table 3).”
A survey: Control plane scalability issues and approaches in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) (2017, methodology): “Fibbing [56] Fibbing Controller Python/C Used ISP topologies [90] whose sizes range from 80 nodes to over 300.”
FIREMAN: a toolkit for firewall modeling and analysis (2006, background): “There are numerous studies on network topology, IP connectivity [5, 18, 28], and router configurations [10, 13, 14, 25].”
Orchestrating Virtualized Network Functions (2015, background): “…network topologies: (i) Internet2 research network (12 nodes, 15 links) [21], (ii) A university data center network (23 nodes, TABLE II SERVER AND MIDDLEBOX DATA USED IN EVALUATION 42 links) [22] and (iii) Autonomous System 3967 (AS-3967) from Rocketfuel topology dataset (79 nodes, 147 links) [23].”