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Authors:
Tony McGregor
Keywords: doubletree; traceroute; active measurement
Abstract:
Most active measurement projects are limited by the number of measurement points and, consequently, the number of perspectives they have on the Internet. The goal of the RIPE NCC Atlas project is to deploy up to 100,000 active measurement monitors around the Internet. An extended version of Hubble, which finds routing ``black holes'' is a motivating application. Increasing the number of measurement points by two orders of magnitude requires new measurement approaches. For example, Atlas Hubble needs to perform traceroute type path discovery from many sources to a small number of destinations. It is important to optimise the load placed on the destination monitors, especially if they are located at the edges of the Internet. Doubletree is a path discovery optimisation technique that may be applicable. To date, Doubletree has only been investigated for a small number of sources to many destinations. This paper reports on a simulation study of Doubletree for the many sources, few targets case. Initial results indicate that Doubletree may be very effective in this case but further work is needed to understand the impact of the sharing of coordination information.
Pages: 1 to 7
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: March 20, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3980
ISBN: 978-1-61208-125-0
Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles
Dates: from March 20, 2011 to March 25, 2011