IPv6 Backbone Network Topology (A Map of Ipv6 Internet)

The following pictures displays our recent IPv6 backbone topology discovery and display results.

Router level IPv6 backbone network topology

Router level IPv6 backbone network topology(routers belonging to China are marked as blue)

AS level IPv6 backbone network topology

AS level geographical IPv6 backbone network topology(Powered By Google Map)

AS level geographical IPv6 backbone network topology(Powered By Google Earth)

After analyzing the topology data from CAIDA's Scamper and our IPv6 topology discovery system Dolphin, we find that the IPv6 Internet is also scale-free at AS level but with a new feature: its exponent of the degree distribution is just 1.2, which is much smaller than that of the IPv4 Internet network topology.

Degree distribution of Dolphin

Compared with the Scamper

Based on the IPv6 backbone AS topological data,we improved algorithm for finding community structure in IPv6 network.The fellowing picture is the result.


AS level topology of IPv6 backbone network