MAPPING THE INTERNET

3/4/02


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Table of Contents

MAPPING THE INTERNET

Road map

Internet mapping abstractions

Infrastructural maps

Key mapping principles and tools

How “traceroute” works

A basic mapping algorithm

Informed random address probing

Methodology

A map rendered with VGJ

Three types of tests

Statistical output

Different TTL values

Basic vs. informed probing

Discussion and future work

Conclusions

References

Author: A. Danesh, Lj. Trajkovic, S. Rubin, and M. Smith