On the Eyeshots of BGP Vantage Points

The publicly available BGP Vantage Points (VPs) have been heavily used by the research community to build the Internet Autonomous System (AS) level topology, which is a key input to many applications, such as routing protocol design, performance evaluation and network security issues. However, a detailed study on the eyeshots of these VPs has received little attention before. In this paper, the authors inspect these VPs carefully. Specifically, they do a measurement work to evaluate the effect of various factors on the eyeshot of each individual VP as well as the relationship between the eye-shots of different VPs.