METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROSPECTIVE PEERING PARTNERS FOR AN INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER

摘要

Disclosed herein is a method for determining prospective peering partners for an Internet Service Provider, including: gathering Internet Service Provider's routing and traffic information; gathering additional routing information from sources other than the Internet Service Provider; identifying Uncovered Target Autonomous Systems baaed on the Internet Service Provider's routing and traffic information, the Uncovered Target Autonomous Systems being Autonomous Systems with non-null traffic and that are reachable by the Internet Service Provider via a Transit relationship, identifying paths from the Internet Service Provider to the Uncovered Target Autonomous Systems based on the additional routing information; identifying intermediate Autonomous Systems along the identified paths; and determining at least a prospective peering partner for the Internet Service Provider based on the identified intermediate Autonomous Systems.