RIPE Atlas

RIPE Atlas is a global, open, distributed Internet measurement platform, consisting of thousands of measurement devices that measure Internet connectivity in real time.

History

RIPE Atlas was established in 2010 by the RIPE Network Coordination Centre. As of November 2015, it was composed of nearly 9,000 probes and 150 anchors around the world.

Technical details
RIPE Atlas probe (version 4)
  • Measurement types: The measurement devices (probes and anchors) perform IPv4 and IPv6 traceroute, ping, DNS, NTP and other measurements.
  • Atlas Probe device types:
  • Atlas Anchor device types
    • Version 2: Soekris Net6501-70 board in the 1U 19-inch rack-mounted case with additional SSD
    • Version 3: PC Engines APU2C2/APU2C4 in a 1U 19-inch rack-mounted case with additional SSD
  • The back-end architecture was described in detail in the September 2015 edition of the Internet Protocol Journal [4]

Community

Anyone can volunteer to host a RIPE Atlas probe.[5] Probes are free of charge, low maintenance, and can be plugged in behind a home router or in a data center.

Organisations that want additional RIPE Atlas measurements targeting their network can host a RIPE Atlas anchor.[6]

Tools for visualizing and analyzing RIPE Atlas measurement data are used by network operators for troubleshooting and network monitoring.[7]

Open source software tools, written by RIPE Atlas users, are available in the repository for community contributions on GitHub.[8]

Several hundred individuals also support RIPE Atlas as "ambassadors" by promoting participation and distributing probes. Organizations also support RIPE Atlas as sponsors.[9]

Multiple hackerspaces have installed RIPE Atlas probes and have their own project about displaying the probes presence.[10]

Research papers

All the data collected by RIPE Atlas is open data and is made publicly available to users and the wider Internet community.

  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Internet latency: a large-scale study[11]
  • Periodic Path Changes in RIPE Atlas[12]
  • Using RIPE Atlas for Geolocating IP Infrastructure[13]
  • Dissecting the Speed-of-Internet of Middle East[14]
  • Dissecting Last-mile Latency Characteristics
  • Vantage Point Selection for IPv6 Measurements: Benefits and Limitations of RIPE Atlas Tags
  • Dynamic Traceroute Visualization at Multiple Abstraction Levels[15]
  • Network Interference Detection [16]
  • Internet Performance Measurement Platforms [17]
  • Visualization and Monitoring for the Identification and Analysis of DNS Issues[18]
  • Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies [19]
  • Mapping Peering Interconnections [20]
  • Generating Function For Network Delay [21]
  • Lessons Learned From Using the RIPE Atlas Platform for Measurement Research [22]
  • Quantifying Interference between Measurements on the RIPE Atlas Platform [23]
  • Geolocation hints verification using RIPE Atlas [24]
  • Using RIPE Atlas to Evaluate the Locator/Id Separation Protocol [25]
  • Performance Evaluation of Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol through RIPE Atlas [26]
  • Disco: Fast, Good, and Cheap Outage Detection[27]
  • Sibyl: A Practical Internet Route Oracle [28]
  • Are We One Hop Away from a Better Internet? [29]
  • Analyzing the Performance of an Anycast CDN [30]
  • Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies in the Wild [31]
  • Measurement Vantage Point Selection Using A Similarity Metric [32]
  • On the Analysis of Internet Paths with DisNETPerf, a Distributed Paths Performance Analyzer [33]
  • Characterizing User-to-User Connectivity with RIPE Atlas [34]
  • Detecting DNS Root Manipulation [35]
  • An Empirical Analysis of the Commercial VPN Ecosystem [36]
  • A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists [37]
  • How to Catch when Proxies Lie: Verifying the Physical Locations of Network Proxies with Active Geolocation [38]
  • Radian: Visual Exploration of Traceroutes[39]
  • Measuring, Characterizing, and Avoiding Spam Traffic Costs[40]
  • Karaoke: Distributed Private Messaging Immune to Passive Traffic Analysis[41]
  • Cross-AS (X-AS) Internet topology mapping[42]
  • Cache Me If You Can: Effects of DNS Time-to-Live[43]
  • Judicious QoS using Cloud Overlays [44]
  • DNS Observatory: The Big Picture of the DNS[45]
  • Internet Development in Africa: A Content Use, Hosting and Distribution Perspective[46]
  • Performance Barriers to Cloud Services in Africa’s Public Sector: A Latency Perspective[47]
  • Debogonising 2a10::/12. Analysis of one week’s visibility of a new /12[48]

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