VAST: visualizing autonomous system topology

Extracting specific and relevant information regarding the Internet's BGP routing topology is a challenging task. In this paper we present a set of techniques that can be used to visualize various aspects of the Internet topology. We have implemented our visualization techniques in a unique tool called VAST (Visualizing Autonomous System Topology). With the help of simple illustrative examples we describe how our visualizations allow security researchers to extract relevant information quickly from raw BGP routing datasets. VAST provides visualizations that represent information about both the overall topological properties of the Internet as well as individual Autonomous System (AS) behavior.

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