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2021
Journal Article
Titel

ProBGP: Progressive Visual Analytics of Live BGP Updates

Abstract
The global routing network is the backbone of the Internet. However, it is quite vulnerable to attacks that cause major disruptions or routing manipulations. Prior related works have visualized routing path changes with node link diagrams, but it requires strong domain expertise to understand if a routing change between autonomous systems is suspicious. Geographic visualization has an advantage over conventional node-link diagrams by helping uncover such suspicious routes as the user can immediately see if a path is the shortest path to the target or an unreasonable detour. In this paper, we present ProBGP, a web-based progressive approach to visually analyze BGP update routes. We created a novel progressive data processing algorithm for the geographic approximation of autonomous systems and combined it with a progressively updating visualization. While the newest log data is continuously loaded, our approach also allows querying the entire log recordings since 1999. We present the usefulness of our approach with a real use case of a major route leak from June 2019. We report on multiple interviews with domain experts throughout the development. Finally, we evaluated our algorithm quantitatively against a public peering database and qualitatively against AS network maps.
Author(s)
Ulmer, Alex
Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD
Sessler, David
Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD
Kohlhammer, Jörn
Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD
Zeitschrift
Computer graphics forum
Funder
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BMBF (Deutschland)
Konferenz
Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2021
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DOI
10.1111/cgf.14287
Language
English
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  • ATHENE

  • CRISP

  • Lead Topic- Digitized Work

  • Research Line- Human computer interaction (HCI)

  • Research Line- Modeling (MOD)

  • Visual analytics

  • Computer networks

  • Geographic representation

  • Interactive web applications

  • Web-based visualization

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