What's in the Dataset? Unboxing the APNIC per AS User Population Dataset
Loqman Salamatian, Calvin Ardi, Vasileios Giotsas, Matt Calder, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Todd Arnold · 2024
The research measurement community needs methods and datasets to identify user concentrations and to accurately weight ASes against each other for analyzing measurements' coverage. However, academic researchers traditionally lack visibility into how many users are in each network or how much traffic flows to each network and so often fall back on treating all IP addresses or networks equally. As an alternative, some recent studies have used the APNIC per AS Population Estimates dataset, but it is unvalidated and its methodology is not fully public.