Towards an AS-to-Organization Map. Cai, X., Heidemann, J., Krishnamurthy, B., & Willinger, W. In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, pages 199–205, Melbourne, Australia, November, 2010. ACM.
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An understanding of Internet topology is central to answer various questions ranging from network resilience to peer selection or data center location. While much of prior work has examined AS-level connectivity, meaningful and relevant results from such an abstract view of Internet topology have been limited. For one, semantically, AS relationships capture business relationships and not physical connectivity. Additionally, many organizations often use multiple ASes, either to implement different routing policies, or as legacies from mergers and acquisitions. In this paper, we move beyond the traditional AS graph view of the Internet to define the problem of \emphAS-to-organization mapping. We describe our initial steps at automating the capture of the rich semantics inherent in the AS-level ecosystem where routing and connectivity intersect with organizations. We discuss preliminary methods that identify multi-AS organizations from WHOIS data and illustrate the challenges posed by the quality of the available data and the complexity of real-world organizational relationships.
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	author = 	"Xue Cai and John Heidemann and Balachander Krishnamurthy and Walter Willinger",
	title = 	"Towards an {AS}-to-{Organization} Map",
	booktitle = 	"Proceedings of the " # "ACM Internet Measurement Conference",
	year = 		2010,
	sortdate = 		"2010-11-01", 
	project = "ant, amite",
	jsubject = "topology_modeling",
	pages = 	"199--205",
	address = 	"Melbourne, Australia",
	month = 	nov,
	publisher = 	"ACM",
	jlocation = 	"johnh: pafile",
	keywords = 	"AS to organization mapping,
		internet topology, network topology, AS topology",
	doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1879141.1879166",
	url =		"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Cai10c.html",
	pdfurl =	"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Cai10c.pdf",
	myorganization =	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	copyrightholder = "ACM",
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	supporting = "The inferred ground truth used in this paper is
                         available on request as dataset \url{USC/LANDER-as_to_org_mapping_inferred_truth-20100507}",
	abstract = "An understanding of Internet topology is central to answer various
questions ranging from network resilience to peer selection or data
center location. While much of prior work has examined AS-level
connectivity, meaningful and relevant results from such an abstract
view of Internet topology have been limited. For one, semantically, AS
relationships capture business relationships and not physical
connectivity. Additionally, many organizations often use multiple
ASes, either to implement different routing policies, or as legacies
from mergers and acquisitions.  In this paper, we move beyond the
traditional AS graph view of the Internet to define the problem
of \emph{AS-to-organization mapping}.  We describe our initial steps at
automating the capture of the rich semantics inherent in the AS-level
ecosystem where routing and connectivity intersect with organizations.
We discuss preliminary methods that identify multi-AS organizations
from WHOIS data and illustrate the challenges posed by the quality of
the available data and the complexity of real-world organizational
relationships.",
}

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