[e2e] paper on geographic properties of Internet routing

[Venkat Padmanabhan]

A few people have emailed me to say that they were unable to download the paper using the URLs listed below. I am not sure why. I just tried downloading the files from a few machines, both here at Microsoft and elsewhere, and it worked fine.

In any case, the files are also available via FTP at the following URLs:

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/tr-2001-89.pdf
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/tr-2001-89.ps

If you would like me to email you the paper, let me know.

-Venkat



-----Original Message-----
From: Venkat Padmanabhan [mailto:padmanab at microsoft.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:38 AM
To: end2end-interest at postel.org
Subject: [e2e] paper on geographic properties of Internet routing

The following paper on the geographic properties of Internet routing may be of interest to the end2end community. This is a follow-on to the IP2Geo work that we presented at SIGCOMM 2001. Comments are welcome.
 
Venkat Padmanabhan
Microsoft Research
padmanab at microsoft.com
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~padmanab/
 
 
 
 
Title: Geographic Properties of Internet Routing: Analysis and Implications
Authors: L. Subramanian, V. N. Padmanabhan, and R. H. Katz
 
Abstract:
 
In this paper, we study the geographic properties of Internet routing. Our work is distinguished from previous studies of Internet routing in that we consider the geographic path traversed by packets, not just the network path. We examine several geographic properties including how circuitous Internet routes tend to be, how multiple ISPs along an end-to-end path share the burden of routing packets, and how much sharing there is between paths at the geographic level. We evaluate these properties using extensive network measurements. We examine both the spatial and the temporal variations of some of the properties. We discuss the implications of these geographic properties and conclude that geography is an interesting tool for analyzing the Internet properties.
 
URLs:
 
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~padmanab/papers/msr-tr-2001-89.pdf
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~padmanab/papers/msr-tr-2001-89.ps