Paper Info
Title
Touring the internet in a TCP sidecar
Abstract
An accurate router-level topology of the Internet would benefit many research areas, including network diagnosis, inter-domain traffic engineering, and overlay construction. We present TCP Sidecar and Passenger, two elements of a system for router-level Internet topology discovery. Sidecar transparently injects measurement probes into non-measurement TCP streams, while Passenger combines TTL-limited probes with the often-ignored IP record route option. The combined approach mitigates problems associated with traceroute-based topology discovery, including abuse reports, spurious edge inference from multi-path routing, unresolved IP aliases, long network timeouts, and link discovery behind NATs and firewalls. We believe that we are the first mapping project to measure MPLS use with ICMP extensions and record route behavior when the TTL is not decremented. We are able to discover NATs when monitoring TCP connections that tunnel through them. In this paper, we present preliminary results for TCP Sidecar and Passenger on PlanetLab. Our experiments inject measurement probes into traffic generated both from the CoDeeN Web proxy project and from a custom web crawler to 166,745 web sites.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1177080.1177093
Internet Measurement Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
inter-domain traffic engineering,custom web crawler,injects measurement probe,traceroute-based topology discovery,codeen web proxy project,tcp sidecar,accurate router-level topology,tcp connection,non-measurement tcp stream,link discovery,web crawler,network topology
Internet topology,PlanetLab,Multiprotocol Label Switching,Computer science,traceroute,Computer network,Internet Control Message Protocol,Traffic engineering,Web crawler,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-561-4
33
2.31
References 
Authors
22
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rob Sherwood11462128.08
neil spring23681276.15