Deriving traffic demands for operational IP networks: methodology and experience
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Towards capturing representative AS-level Internet topologies
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Diagnosing network-wide traffic anomalies
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Building an AS-topology model that captures route diversity
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Internet resiliency to attacks and failures under BGP policy routing
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An empirical approach to modeling inter-AS traffic matrices
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
On the impact of route monitor selection
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
In search of the elusive ground truth: the internet's as-level connectivity structure
SIGMETRICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Ten years in the evolution of the internet ecosystem
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Lord of the links: a framework for discovering missing links in the internet topology
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Spatio-temporal compressive sensing and internet traffic matrices
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
On dominant characteristics of residential broadband internet traffic
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Where the sidewalk ends: extending the internet as graph using traceroutes from P2P users
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
The (in)completeness of the observed internet AS-level structure
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Putting BGP on the right path: a case for next-hop routing
Hotnets-IX Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
YouTube traffic dynamics and its interplay with a tier-1 ISP: an ISP perspective
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
The Internet is flat: modeling the transition from a transit hierarchy to a peering mesh
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
IP geolocation databases: unreliable?
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A systematic framework for unearthing the missing links: measurements and impact
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Let the market drive deployment: a strategy for transitioning to BGP security
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
How many tiers?: pricing in the internet transit market
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
CIPT: using tuangou to reduce IP transit costs
Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Twelve years in the evolution of the internet ecosystem
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A history of an internet exchange point
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Network topologies: inference, modeling, and generation
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
IXP traffic: a macroscopic view
Proceedings of the 7th Latin American Networking Conference
Exploring reachability via settlement-free peering
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on CoNEXT student workshop
Characterizing large-scale routing anomalies: a case study of the china telecom incident
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
On weather and internet traffic demand
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Dasu: pushing experiments to the internet's edge
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
BGP security in partial deployment: is the juice worth the squeeze?
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Pushing CDN-ISP collaboration to the limit
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
AS relationships, customer cones, and validation
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
On the benefits of using a large IXP as an internet vantage point
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
AS-level topology collection through looking glass servers
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
POSTER: PnP: improving web browsing performance over tor using web resource prefetch-and-push
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security
Inferring multilateral peering
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
There is more to IXPs than meets the eye
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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The largest IXPs carry on a daily basis traffic volumes in the petabyte range, similar to what some of the largest global ISPs reportedly handle. This little-known fact is due to a few hundreds of member ASes exchanging traffic with one another over the IXP's infrastructure. This paper reports on a first-of-its-kind and in-depth analysis of one of the largest IXPs worldwide based on nine months' worth of sFlow records collected at that IXP in 2011. A main finding of our study is that the number of actual peering links at this single IXP exceeds the number of total AS links of the peer-peer type in the entire Internet known as of 2010! To explain such a surprisingly rich peering fabric, we examine in detail this IXP's ecosystem and highlight the diversity of networks that are members at this IXP and connect there with other member ASes for reasons that are similarly diverse, but can be partially inferred from their business types and observed traffic patterns. In the process, we investigate this IXP's traffic matrix and illustrate what its temporal and structural properties can tell us about the member ASes that generated the traffic in the first place. While our results suggest that these large IXPs can be viewed as a microcosm of the Internet ecosystem itself, they also argue for a re-assessment of the mental picture that our community has about this ecosystem.