Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies in the Wild
Ruwaifa Anwar, Haseeb Niaz, David Choffnes, Ítalo F. S. Cunha, Phillipa Gill, Ethan Katz-Bassett · 2015
Models of Internet routing are critical for studies of Internet security, reliability and evolution, which often rely on simulations of the Internet's routing system. Accurate models are difficult to build and suffer from a dearth of ground truth data, as ISPs often treat their connectivity and routing policies as trade secrets. In this environment, researchers rely on a number of simplifying assumptions and models proposed over a decade ago, which are widely criticized for their inability to capture routing policies employed in practice.