HiPerConTracer 3.0: Transport-level Packet Routing Analysis Tool

Another paper from our work on cyber sovereignty as well as network measurements using our High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) tool has been accepted to the 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), to be held in March 12-14, 2025 in Torino, Piemonte, Italy! The paper is going to be presented by Thomas Dreibholz.

Reference: Dreibholz, Thomas and Mazumdar, Somnath: «HiPerConTracer 3.0: Transport-level Packet Routing Analysis Tool» (PDF, 5349 KiB, in English), in Proceedings of the 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), Torino, Piemonte/Italy, March 14, 2025, [BibTeX, XML].

Dataset: Dreibholz, Thomas and Mazumdar, Somnath: «TARTAN Traceroute Dataset», IEEE DataPort, DOI 10.21227/a241-gm35, November 9, 2023, [BibTeX, XML].

Abstract: Applications rely on the network to reliably forward packets between nodes. The way packets are forwarded has a significant impact on latency-sensitive applications. It is important to gain a better understanding of the routes the packets take, to adapt an application’s communication to network performance, and to achieve good quality of experience (QoE) for the user. Continuous, long-term evaluation is required to obtain detailed insights into network performance. Here, we present HiPerConTracer 3.0 for tracing routes between senders and receivers in public and private networks. This open-source tool for large-scale IP trace analysis performs traceroute/ping measurements to provide detailed insights into packet routes and packet timing. In this paper, we have demonstrated the intuitive route visualization capability of the proposed tool by verifying some known network behaviors.