COLLECTED DATA in TEXT FORMAT, and in BINARY FORMAT (8 Datasets)

PROCESSED DATA in TEXT FORMAT (8 Datasets)

Information about text data:

Each tar.gz file is a round. In the compressed archives you will find about ~500 files where each file contains the data collected by that monitor.

Text File format:

• if a line starts with a '#' character, it means that the following destinations are in this AS
• if a line starts with letter 't', then a new trace is starting where the results are printed in the following lines
• if a line starts with a number, then it is a hop in a trace, and this number is its hop number that we set which expires at an intermediary router (we might get an IP address or no response) or at destination.
• if a line starts with "MPLS", then it is the MPLS label grabbed from the router printed in the previous line
• if a line starts with another pattern, label it as UNDEFINED.

Information about binary data:

A binary file is generated from the corresponding text file, and it contains the following information in the following format:

num_of_traces	[sizeof(int)]	// this is printed once at the beginning of the file, it shows how many trace structs are there in this file
source	[sizeof(struct in_addr)]	// source IP address
dest	[sizeof(struct in_addr)]	// destination IP address
hops[num_of_hops]	[(trace->num_of_hops)*sizeof(struct hop)]	// an array of hop structs. (Note: struct hop{ struct in_addr ip; int hop_no; float_t latency; int MPLS; })
source	[sizeof(struct in_addr)]	// source IP address
dest	[sizeof(struct in_addr)]	// destination IP address
hops[num_of_hops]	[(trace->num_of_hops)*sizeof(struct hop)]	// an array of hop structs. (Note: struct hop{ struct in_addr ip; int hop_no; float_t latency; int MPLS; })
...	...	// throughout the rest of the file, a new trace information (source,dest,hops triple) starts right after one ends

NOTE: You can easily read both the text and binary data with the help of provided script.

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