Efficient and dynamic routing topology inference from end-to-end measurements

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-135

  Ni, Jian ^a   Xie, Haiyong ^b   Tatikonda, Sekhar ^c   Yang, Yang Richard ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Akamai Technologies   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Network measurement; Network monitoring; Network tomography; Routing topology inference

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DESIGN; APPLICATION-LAYER MULTICAST; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CORRECT TOPOLOGY; DYNAMIC ROUTING; END-TO-END MEASUREMENT; IN-NETWORK; INFERENCE ALGORITHM; INTERNET EXPERIMENTS; LINK PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; NETWORK MONITORING; PEER-TO-PEER FILES; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; ROUTING TOPOLOGY; TOPOLOGY INFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MONITORING; OVERLAY NETWORKS; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOLOGY;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 77249114138     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2009.2022538     Document Type: Article

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