On the number of distributed measurement points for network tomography

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 204-209

  Horton, Joseph D ^a   López Ortiz, Alejandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithms; Internet tomography; Network measurements; NP hard; Resilient overlay networks; Topology discovery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROUTERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; INTERNET TOMOGRAPHY; NETWORK MEASUREMENTS; NP-HARD; RESILIENT OVERLAY NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY;

INTERNET;

EID: 14944375975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948205.948231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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