An empirical evaluation of internet latency expansion

  • Authors:
  • Hui Zhang;Ashish Goel;Ramesh Govindan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California;Stanford University;University of Southern California

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Internet's latency expansion determines the asymptotic performance of large-scale distributed systems (such as Peer-to-Peer systems), but previous studies on the Internet have defined expansion in terms of router-level hops. In this paper, we empirically determine the Internet's latency expansion characteristics using measurements from two different Internet topology datasets. Our results show that the Internet router-level topology exhibits a power-law latency expansion, in contrast to its exponential expansion rate in terms of hops.