In today's world, the Internet is the backbone of our society. The relatively unknown Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and with its vulnerabilities, gives malicious parties an opportunity for abuse. By improving the currently known AS relation data set and by simulating BGP traffic this abuse is better spotted. Kastelein's topology generating algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art topology generating algorithms and state-of-the-art AS relation data sets. The proposed BGP simulator misses vital information such as LOCAL_PREFERENCE values to accurately simulate BGP traffic. This lack of information results in longer BGP paths that are not matched with BGP paths from route collectors.