NDLI: Experimenting with alternative path tracing solutions

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Marchetta, Pietro de Donato, Walter Persico, Valerio Pescape, Antonio
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) (Marchetta, Pietro; de Donato, Walter; Persico, Valerio; Pescape, Antonio)
Abstract	Tracing Internet paths is essential for gathering knowledge about the complex, heterogeneous, highly dynamic, and largely opaque eco-system of networks the Internet is. Currently, only two practical solutions are available: (i) equipping packets with the Record Route IP option to register addresses of the traversed routers; (ii) eliciting ICMP Time Exceeded messages by limiting the Time-to-Live of the injected packets. In this paper, we investigate three alternative path tracing solutions eliciting ICMP Parameter Problem (PP) messages from the network through the injection of malformed packets. After having introduced them, we describe the experimental results of a first campaign aiming at evaluating their ability to collect replies from the traversed routers. Finally, thanks to a large-scale multi-vantage points measurement campaign, we evaluate the ability of the most promising ICMP PP-based solution to discover interfaces and routers not discovered by Paris-Traceroute Multipath Detection Algorithm (MDA). Experimental results (a) confirm the ability of this novel path tracing solution to report interfaces and routers that are not reported by the state of the art tools and also (b) uncover the scenarios in which this new solution appears more helpful.
Starting Page	427
Ending Page	432
File Size	444665
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467371940
DOI	10.1109/ISCC.2015.7405552
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-07-06
Publisher Place	Cyprus
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	IP networks Internet Probes Limiting Computers Registers Standards
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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