Lord of the links: A framework for discovering missing links in the Internet topology

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 391-404

  He, Yihua ^a   Siganos, Georgos ^b   Faloutsos, Michalis ^c   Krishnamurthy, Srikanth ^c  

^a YAHOO INC   (United States)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

BGP; Inter domain; Internet; Measurement; Missing links; Routing; Topology

Indexed keywords

AS-LINKS; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; BGP; CONCEPTUAL MODELS; DATA SETS; INTER-DOMAIN; INTERNET EXCHANGES; INTERNET ROUTING; INTERNET TOPOLOGIES; KNOW HOWS; MISSING LINKS; PEER TO PEERS; PEER-TO-PEER LINKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; PROTOCOL DESIGNS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; ROUTING; ROUTING TABLES; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; TRACEROUTE;

INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; TOPOLOGY;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 67349176052     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2008.926512     Document Type: Article

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