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Petros Gigis | 10 May 2017 | RIPE 74
Towards an Eyeball Jedi…
RIPE Atlas in Eyeball Networks
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Motivation
• Is RIPE Atlas deployed in networks with the largest user populations?
• How are these networks interconnected?
• How is this different between countries? - Does this correlate with other information about the
country?
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IXP Country Jedi
CanadaSnapshot: 1 April 2017
• Selected 99 ASNs
• Full mesh measurement
• Public probes only
• Max. 2 probes per ASN
• Geolocate IP hops: OpenIPMap
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Available online at: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/ixp-country-jedi/history
RIPE Labs article: Measuring Countries and IXPs with RIPE Atlas https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/measuring-ixps-with-ripe-atlas
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Eyeball Networks
• The user-facing networks with the largest user populations
• APNIC provides user estimates per ASN [1]
• Two thresholds to select ASNs:
- Only using ASNs with > 1% users
- Cumulative fraction of 95% of the Internet users in that country
- Average coverage 90.5% of population per country
- Russia is an outlier (due to highly diverse eyeball ecosystem)
[1] APNIC User population per ASN data: stats.labs.apnic.net/aspop
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Eyeball to Eyeball Matrix
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Canada
In-country 47,11%Out-of-country 3,06%No coverage 18,07%
Inconsistencies 3,17%Not measured 28,58%
Snapshot: 1 April 2017
Available online for 104 countries at: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/eyeball-jedi
• The boxes are sized according to the APNIC estimates of Internet users per ASN
• The box area is used as a metric to calculate percentages of user-to-user connections with certain characteristics.
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Eyeball to Eyeball Matrix
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Hungary
In-country 63,22%Out-of-country 0,00%No coverage 11,66%
Inconsistencies 3,97%Not measured 21,15%
Snapshot: 1 April 2017
Available online for 104 countries at: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/eyeball-jedi
• The boxes are sized according to the APNIC estimates of Internet users per ASN
• The box area is used as a metric to calculate percentages of user-to-user connections with certain characteristics.
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Eyeball to Eyeball Matrix
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Russia
In-country 7,01%Out-of-country 0,00%No coverage 1,29%
Inconsistencies 0,51%Not measured 91,18%
Snapshot: 1 April 2017
Available online for 104 countries at: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/eyeball-jedi
• The boxes are sized according to the APNIC estimates of Internet users per ASN
• The box area is used as a metric to calculate percentages of user-to-user connections with certain characteristics.
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RIPE Atlas Coverage of Eyeball Networks
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Available online for 249 countries at: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/population_coverage
IPv4 (Public & Private) Probes
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Limitations
• RIPE Atlas measures traffic paths and not traffic volume
• RIPE Atlas vantage points are a biased sample of connectivity in a country
• Geolocation accuracy
• Ground-truth for validation of APNIC estimates (user per ASN)
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Future Work
• Investigate more sophisticated probe selection strategies
• Identify intermediate ASNs
• Eyeball to neighbour country eyeball traffic
• Eyeball networks towards CDNs
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Eyeball Jedi is publicly available at:
http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/eyeball-jedi
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Actions
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• Deploy probes on the no coverage networks (http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/population_coverage)
• Give us feedback - What we should focus on?
• Look up your country/network (http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/eyeball-jedi)
• Provide new data sources (user per ASN)