Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An empirical approach to modeling inter-AS traffic matrices
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Bro: a system for detecting network intruders in real-time
SSYM'98 Proceedings of the 7th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 7
I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world's largest user generated content video system
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Youtube traffic characterization: a view from the edge
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Measuring and evaluating large-scale CDNs Paper withdrawn at Mirosoft's request
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Improving performance on the internet
Communications of the ACM - Inspiring Women in Computing
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
On dominant characteristics of residential broadband internet traffic
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
One-click hosting services: a file-sharing hideout
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Content delivery networks: protection or threat?
ESORICS'09 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research in computer security
The Akamai network: a platform for high-performance internet applications
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Towards an AS-to-organization map
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Measuring a commercial content delivery network
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
IP geolocation databases: unreliable?
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Analysis of country-wide internet outages caused by censorship
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
The Japan earthquake: the impact on traffic and routing observed by a local ISP
Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters
Reliable client accounting for P2P-infrastructure hybrids
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Anatomy of a large european IXP
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
DNS to the rescue: discerning content and services in a tangled web
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Reducing web latency: the virtue of gentle aggression
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Mapping the expansion of Google's serving infrastructure
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
Exploring EDNS-client-subnet adopters in your free time
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
Exploring EDNS-client-subnet adopters in your free time
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
There is more to IXPs than meets the eye
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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In the context of measuring the Internet, a long-standing question has been whether there exist well-localized physical entities in today's network where traffic from a representative cross-section of the constituents of the Internet can be observed at a fine-enough granularity to paint an accurate and informative picture of how these constituents shape and impact much of the structure and evolution of today's Internet and the actual traffic it carries. In this paper, we first answer this question in the affirmative by mining 17 weeks of continuous sFlow data from one of the largest European IXPs. Examining these weekly snapshots, we discover a vantage point with excellent visibility into the Internet, seeing week-in and week-out traffic from all 42K+ routed ASes, almost all 450K+ routed prefixes, from close to 1.5M servers, and around a quarter billion IPs from all around the globe. Second, to show the potential of such vantage points, we analyze the server-related portion of the traffic at this IXP, identify the server IPs and cluster them according to the organizations responsible for delivering the content. In the process, we observe a clear trend among many of the critical Internet players towards network heterogenization; that is, either hosting servers of third-party networks in their own infrastructures or pursuing massive deployments of their own servers in strategically chosen third-party networks. While the latter is a well-known business strategy of companies such as Akamai, Google, and Netflix, we show in this paper the extent of network heterogenization in today's Internet and illustrate how it enriches the traditional, largely traffic-agnostic AS-level view of the Internet.