Exploring networks with traceroute-like probes: Theory and simulations

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 355, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-24

  Dall'Asta, Luca ^a   Alvarez Hamelin, Ignacio ^a   Barrat, Alain ^a   Vázquez, Alexei ^b   Vespignani, Alessandro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet exploration; Topology inference; Traceroute

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

INTERNET EXPLORATION; TOPOLOGY INFERENCE; TRACEROUTE;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33644867932     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2005.12.009     Document Type: Article

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