Bias reduction in traceroute Sampling - Towards a more accurate map of the internet

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4863 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-15

  Flaxman, Abraham D ^a   Vera, Juan ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; GRAPH THEORY; ROUTERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS; DEGREE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ROUTE SAMPLING;

INTERNET;

EID: 38149124152     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77004-6_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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