HY- 459 - Internet Measurements Laboratory, (Autumn 2025)

LINKS

Wireshark
https://www.wireshark.org/
Description: The official site to download the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. You'll also find extensive documentation, tutorials, and sample capture files.
RIPE Atlas
https://atlas.ripe.net/
Description: The main portal for the RIPE Atlas global measurement network. Here you can access measurement data, see the status of the network's thousands of probes, and create an account to run your own measurements.
Measurement Lab (M-Lab)
https://www.measurementlab.net/
Description: The home of the largest open-source platform for measuring Internet performance. Explore their speed test tools (like NDT), access massive public datasets, and learn about their research.
CAIDA - Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis
https://www.caida.org/data/
Description: The host organization for the Internet Yellow Pages dataset and many other critical Internet measurement resources. This is your gateway to large-scale topology and performance data.

RIPE NCC
https://www.ripe.net/
Description: The Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia. This is the organization that develops and maintains RIPE Atlas. Their site has a wealth of information about Internet governance and operations.
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
https://www.sigcomm.org/events/imc-conference
Description: The premier academic conference where cutting-edge research on Internet measurement is published. The proceedings are an excellent source for the research papers we will discuss in class.

BGPlay
https://bgplay.space/
Description: An excellent tool from RIPE NCC for visualizing BGP routing changes over time. It's incredibly useful for understanding how routing events and anomalies propagate through the Internet.
Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit
https://bgp.he.net/
Description: A comprehensive toolkit for exploring the global BGP routing tables. You can look up AS information, IP prefixes, and examine routing paths.
Ping.pe
https://ping.pe/
Description: A simple but powerful online tool that lets you run ping and traceroute to any destination from dozens of locations around the world, providing a quick multi-vantage point perspective.