Visualizing the Performance of an Anycast Network

An interactive data visualization has been built that can visualize how an anycast network is functioning. Numerous interaction techniques have been utilized to allow the user to view, explore and analyze the data such that unusual routing patterns and deficiencies of the Border Gateway Protocol can be detected. The development of the project has been based on the human-centered design process making use of multiple iteration cycles. In each cycle a prototype was built and evaluated after which the received feedback was prioritized accordingly and taken in to account for the next iteration cycle. The final implementation supports drilling down in to the data such that the distribution of the queries can be viewed per continent, country, anycast site and autonomous system.