bgproutes.io

BGP routes collected from operational routers are crucial for monitoring and studying Internet routing.
Led by researchers, bgproutes.io is a project dedicated to enhancing the collection, processing, and analysis of these BGP routes.

bgproutes.io provides the following tools

GILL: A BGP routes collection platform.
GILL has an open peering policy and is designed to support an order of magnitude more BGP sessions than existing collection platforms such RIS and RouteViews.

Learn more about GILL
and start peering with it

MVP: A tool that gives the valuable vantage points.
MVP helps users to find from which vantage points they should process the data when they cannot take them all due to resource or timing contraints.

Learn more about MVP
and get your MVPs

DFOH: A tool to detect forged-origin BGP hijacks.
DFOH helps network operators to detect when the traffic destined to their network is potentially hijacked by hackers using a forged-origin BGP hijack.

Learn more about DFOH
and see the suspicious cases

Papers

bgproutes.io is built on cutting-edge scientific research presented at leading, peer-reviewed, international conferences and workshops. You can explore our published papers below.

If you use our tools or data, please cite our papers

The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms. ACM SIGCOMM 2024.
Bibtex (click to expand).

    @inproceedings{gill_sigcomm24,
    author = {Thomas Alfroy and Thomas Holterbach and Thomas Krenc and KC Claffy and Cristel Pelsser},
    title = {The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM '24)},
    year = {2024},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    }

Measuring Internet Routing from the Most Valuable Points. arXiv 2024. See also our IMC'22 poster
Bibtex (click to expand).

@inproceedings {mvp_arxiv,
    author = {Thomas Alfroy and Thomas Holterbach and Thomas Krenc and KC Claffy and Cristel Pelsser},
    title = {Measuring Internet Routing from the Most Valuable Points},
    booktitle = {Technical Report},
    year = {2024},
    publisher = {arXiv}}

A System to Detect Forged-Origin Hijacks. USENIX NSDI 2024.
Bibtex (click to expand).

                    @inproceedings {dfoh,
                        author = {Thomas Holterbach and Thomas Alfroy and Amreesh D. Phokeer and Alberto Dainotti and Cristel Pelsser},
                        title = {A System to Detect Forged-Origin Hijacks},
                        booktitle = {21th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24)},
                        year = {2024},
                        publisher = {USENIX Association}}

Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons. ACM HotNets 2023.
Bibtex (click to expand).

    @inproceedings{gillnet_hotnets23,
    author = {Thomas Alfroy and Thomas Holterbach and Thomas Krenc and KC Claffy and Cristel Pelsser},
    title = {Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets '23)},
    year = {2023},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    }

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bgproutes.io provides the following tools

Papers