The Effect of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict from the Perspective of Internet eXchanges
Cristian Trusin, Leandro Bertholdo, Jose Jair Santanna

TL;DR
This study analyzes the impact of the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian conflict on internet infrastructure by examining routing data from major Internet Exchange Points, revealing significant outages in Ukraine and minimal damage in Russia.
Contribution
It introduces a novel analysis of internet resilience during conflict by leveraging IXP routing data to quantify outages and identify key disruption events.
Findings
11.12% of Ukrainian ASes were unreachable during the conflict
Significant outages occurred in Ukraine, minimal in Russia
Identified major events responsible for outages
Abstract
In 2022 the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. It is known that Ukraine faced outages because of the damage to their infrastructure. It is also known that Russia was boycotted by the international community. However the impact on the telecommunications of the two countries remains unknown. In this paper we quantified the degree to which the Internet was affected in both countries by analyzing routing tables from five large Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). IXPs provide a central point of interconnection where internet traffic can be freely exchanged between Autonomous Systems (ASes). This centrality makes IXPs a good vantage point for analyzing changes in the Internet infrastructure. With data collected before and after the start of the conflict we observed considerable damage to the Ukrainian Internet network with numerous outages and minimal damage to the Russian network. An average of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection · Software-Defined Networks and 5G · Cybersecurity and Information Systems
