A structural approach for PoP geo-location

  • Authors:
  • Dima Feldman;Yuval Shavitt;Noa Zilberman

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel;School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel;School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Inferring PoP level maps is gaining interest due to its importance to many areas, e.g., for tracking the Internet evolution and studying its properties. In this paper we introduce a novel structural approach to automatically generate large scale PoP level maps using traceroute measurement from multiple locations. The PoPs are first identified based on their structure, and are then assigned a location using information from several geo-location databases. We discuss the tradeoffs in this approach and provide extensive validation details. The generated maps can be widely used for research, and we provide some possible directions.