Customized Internet Mapping and Picturing


About CIMAP
Customized Internet Mapping and Picturing (CIMAP) is a network visualization tool initially named "Network Visualization Tool" (NVT), and originally designed and implemented during the 2002-2003 academic year by Karim A. Mattar, who was an undergraduate research assistant in the Multimedia Networking & Internet Lab, at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, under the supervision of Professor Lixin Gao.

NVT was eventually renamed CIMAP and further modifications were made and functionalities added during the summer of 2003 by Eugenia (Jane) Shlimovich and Meghan Emilio, both of whom were undergraduate participants in the CRA-W Distributed Mentoring Project and worked under the supervision of Professor Lixin Gao.

This application obtains the information it visualizes from a database of BGP Tables, Relationship Files, and AS Name files, which is maintained by the Multimedia Networking & Internet Lab at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, or from user supplied data files.

Functionalities