As a joint effort between Colorado State, UCLA, and the Oregon Route-Views engineering team at University of Oregon, the NetPath project addresses the challenges in learning the characteristics and state of global Internet routing. As of today, we are yet to achieve a comprehensive picture of the global routing system. Multi-homing, path diversity, and multiple connections provide the opportunity for more resilient communication, but these factors can only be fully exploited if end systems have access to information about the global routing characteristics and topological redundancy. Overall there is a lack of basic understanding and assessment of today's Internet routing infrastructure, the properties of its physical connectivity and the dynamics of routing changes. To this end, our proposed work will expand the essential routing monitoring infrastructure, provide analysis tools, and contribute to the general understanding of the global connectivity needed by end systems, researchers, and the Internet community in general.
A list of NetPath publications can be found on Colorado State Network Security Group Publications Page
Funded by the Defenese Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).