Topographic Visualization of the Internet
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چکیده
In the Internet thousands of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) exchange traffic according to their commercial agreements. ISPs are usually thought as organized in a hierarchy with the most important at the top. The peculiar business model of the Internet make paths that traverse higher levels of the hierarchy more expensive than paths that traverse only lower levels. To visually represent routing paths traversed by traffic flows we propose a topographic metaphor which highlights the levels of the hierarchy they traverse. We propose an algorithm to compute such Internet topographic maps and show preliminary results. Our implementation is based on the BGPlay routing visualization system which is a web based monitoring tool widely used by ISPs.
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