CICI: TCR: Building a more Resilient IPv6 from Passive Outage Detection (BRIPOD)

Project Description

The goal of the CICI: TCR: Building a more Resilient IPv6 with Passive Outage Detection (BRIPOD) Project is to improve observability of the IPv6 Internet using passive observations of IPv6 data to understand how IPv6 is being used, how reliable it is, and how improve it and encourage its use.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is important help our globe-spanning Internet continue to meet the needs of billions of people tens of billions of computers. Unfortunately IPv6’s huge size (10^36 addresses) means techniques used to observe today’s IPv4 Internet cannot directly apply to IPv6.

The BRIPOD Project is improving the IPv6 Internet in three ways: (1) we are developing new approaches to observe the IPv6 Internet, and to develop IPv6 datasets that can be provided to researchers in ways that safeguard individual privacy. (2) We are developing new approaches to use such data to detect partial reachability and outages in the IPv6 Internet. And (3), we are developing methods to use these approaches to advise network operators about potential network problems and improve IPv6 reliability.

The outcomes of this project will be new IPv6 datasets for network research; better understanding of how the IPv6 Internet is like and different from the IPv4 Internet, including its reliability and how it is used; and encouragement for Research and Education networks to increase deployment of IPv6.

This project is a collaboration between the University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute and MERIT Networks.

Support

BRIPOD is supported by NSF/CISE Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure as NSF OAC-2530698.

BRIPOD is a joint effort of USC/ISI and Merit Network, Inc.

People

  • Pierrette Renée Dagg, co-PI on this project, director of research (Merit Networks)
  • John Heidemann, PI on this project, project leader and professor (USC/ISI)
  • Yuri Pradkin, researcher (USC/ISI)

Publications

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    Software

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    Datasets

    We also make all datasets available through the ANT dataset page.