Future Development

Our development roadmap focuses on two key areas.

Enhanced Monitoring Capabilities

We are working to:

• Increase snapshot frequency from hour-level to minute-level time resolution
• Expand coverage of internet routes that are not well covered by current publicly-available data
• Improve observers’ ability to detect and track network attacks and anomalies

Community-Driven Improvements

Our mission is to serve a diverse set of stakeholders, including content providers, network operators, telecom regulators, cybersecurity analysts, and internet measurement researchers.

We welcome your feedback to better align IPRS capabilities with community needs.

Technical Implementation

IPRS relies on free, liberally-licensed open-source software:

• The measurements are orchestrated by the Iris measurement orchestration system.
• The dynamic allocation of IPv4 destination prefixes to vantage points is determined by the Zeph reinforcement learning algorithm. IPv6 destination prefix allocations are currently static.
• At each vantage point, probe packets are sent and probe replies are received and logged by the Caracal high-speed probing tool that we currently throttle to 100,000 packets per second.
• The determination of which probe packets should be sent, and in which order, is conducted using the Diamond-Miner algorithm for IPv4 and the yarrp algorithm for IPv6.

Iris, Zeph, Diamond-Miner, and Caracal have been developed by the Dioptra research group. We offer implementation support for individuals and organizations interested in utilizing this technology stack.