Building a Continuously Updated Model of the Internet

by
Jeremy Lingmann

There are many open questions on the evolving structure of the Internet. How rapidly is the total capacity of the Internet increasing over time? Where are the bottlenecks? What is the rate of change? This research project is the first step towards answering these questions and others by building a richly annotated model of the Internet, complete with link attributes (delay, loss, capacity, congestion), router attributes (alias resolution, geographic location, failure rate), and operational policy (intradomain and interdomain routing policy.) The key issue addressed in this phase of the project has been how to collect this data efficiently without sacrificing completeness. I will discuss how we have used a creative combination of best known techniques and prior research work to accomplish this goal.

Advised by Tom Anderson

CSE 403
Wednesday
April 27, 2005
3:30 - 4:20 pm