Programming Assignment: BGP Data Analysis

The BGP dataset contains a collection of AS paths describing the Internet inter-domain routing information. It is publically accessible at RIPE and RouteViews project websites. For the sake of easy processing, you could use the BGP data collected in January 2014. The raw dataset is stored in a compressed BGP format. To obtain human-readable data, you need to process the dataset using the bgpdump tool. You are supposed to download bgpdump-1.4.99.13, decompress it, and compile it into executables. After that, you can extract the human-readable data by executing: ./bgpdump datasetname. A sample dataset you may obtain is shown as follows: