A Shortcut through the IPX: Measuring Latencies in Global Mobile Roaming with Regional Breakouts

This repository contains a description and sample data for the Paper A Shortcut through the IPX: Measuring Latencies in Global Mobile Roaming with Regional Breakouts published at the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA) Conference 2024.
In the provided README.md file, we present example snippets of the datasets, including an explanation of all contained fields.

We cover the three main datasets covered in the related paper:
- DT1: User plane traces captured at multiple GGSN/PGW instances of a globaly operating MVNO
- DT2: GTP echo round trip times between visited network SGSN/SGWs and home network GGSN/PGWs
- DT3: IPX routing information, as extracted from BGP routing tables

For legal reasons, we are not able to publish the secondary datasets (DT4, DT5) covered in the manuscript.

Finally, for privacy, security, and political reasons, certain fields in each of the datasets have been anonymized. These are indicated by the `_anonymized` prefix.
In case of IP addresses, the anonymization ist consistent across datasets, meaning that similar IPs have been anonymized such that their values are still identical after anonymization.

Contact

For questions regarding the dataset, contact Viktoria Vomhoff (viktoria.vomhoff@uni-wuerzburg.de)