Towards an AS-to-organization map

  • Authors:
  • Xue Cai;John Heidemann;Balachander Krishnamurthy;Walter Willinger

  • Affiliations:
  • USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, USA;USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, USA;AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA;AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

An understanding of Internet topology is central to answer various questions ranging from network resilience to peer selection or data center location. While much of prior work has examined AS-level connectivity, meaningful and relevant results from such an abstract view of Internet topology have been limited. For one, semantically, AS relationships capture business relationships and not physical connectivity. Additionally, many organizations often use multiple ASes, either to implement different routing policies, or as legacies from mergers and acquisitions. In this paper, we move beyond the traditional AS graph view of the Internet to define the problem of AS-to-organization mapping. We describe our initial steps at automating the capture of the rich semantics inherent in the AS-level ecosystem where routing and connectivity intersect with organizations. We discuss preliminary methods that identify multi-AS organizations from WHOIS data and illustrate the challenges posed by the quality of the available data and the complexity of real-world organizational relationships.