USC/ISI ANT Datasets and Dataset Formats

ANT provides a number of datasets in different formats. They are available through the LANDER project's participiation in the PREDICT program, or on request to .

• list of datasets

Dataset users should provide a brief justification (a few sentences) about why the dataset is needed, a statement about the project (including funder, if any) and institute (school, business, etc.) where the work will be done. Dataset requestors will be expected to establish a PREDICT account and to agree to USC's memo of agreement (see a summary on the ANT privacy page).

In addition, we document the formats of our datasets here:

• attack datasets: format is standard tcpdump
• Internet address maps: 24-byte binary format
• Internet router topology maps: format

If you would like to request any of the datasets above, please send email to