network cartographer (nec)

Description

The study of the Internet topology allows us to discover properties that can be beneficial to the performances of network protocols and applications. Thus, Internet mapping is very useful to simulation software focusing on network protocols. Unfortunately Internet mapping has two major drawbacks. First it takes a lot of time to be carried out and second it is often incomplete. To solve these two problems, we have developed a fast IP mapping software whose aim is to map the heart of the Internet as fast as possible with the highest attainable precision. Maps created by nec are also available below. To create a map of the Internet (with aliases unresolved) type the command ./nec test.process at the prompt.

Software

network cartographer (nec) version 0.3.1 for UNIX and configuration files for IPv4 mapping

Data

License

nec is released under the GNU LGPL version 3.






Reference

If you use nec for your research or educational work, please cite:

pdf Internet Core Topology Mapping and Analysis.
Damien Magoni, Mickaël Hoerdt.
Computer Communications, 28(5):494-506, 2005.


Last updated: March 5, 2016.