Archives of BGP Updates: Integration and Visualization

The possibility of analyzing updates exchanged between BGP talkers is crucial for several operational and research purposes. To give a few examples, they can be used to investigate the stability of specific routes, to monitor the effects of faults, and to analyze the behavior of the entire network in the presence of particular events. Several archives of BGP conversations, such as the Routing Information System of the RIPE and the Oregon Route Views database, give an answer to this need for information. We describe a work that aims at integrating the data from different BGP-update sources and at presenting such data with graph-based visualization techniques. We address both technological issues related to the data integration and user-interaction issues originated from the necessity of visualizing data that change over time.