Title
Towards a traffic map of the Internet Connecting the dots between popular services and users: Connecting the dots between popular services and users
Author
Koch, Thomas (Columbia University)
Jiang, Weifan (Columbia University)
Luo, Tao (Columbia University)
Gigis, Petros (University College London; RIPE NCC)
Zhang, Yunfan (Columbia University)
Vermeulen, Kevin (Columbia University)
Aben, Emile (Microsoft)
Calder, Matt (Columbia University; RIPE NCC)
Katz-Bassett, Ethan (Columbia University)
Manassakis, Lefteris (FORTH-ICS)
Smaragdakis, G. (TU Delft Cyber Security) 
Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo (IMDEA Networks / ICSI)
Date
2021
Abstract
The impact of Internet phenomena depends on how they impact users, but researchers lack visibility into how to translate Internet events into their impact. Distressingly, the research community seems to have lost hope of obtaining this information without relying on privileged viewpoints. We argue for optimism thanks to new network measurement methods and changes in Internet structure which make it possible to construct an "Internet traffic map". This map would identify the locations of users and major services, the paths between them, and the relative activity levels routed along these paths. We sketch our vision for the map, detail new measurement ideas for map construction, and identify key challenges that the research community should tackle. The realization of an Internet traffic map will be an Internet-scale research effort with Internet-scale impacts that reach far beyond the research community, and so we hope our fellow researchers are excited to join us in addressing this challenge.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3484266.3487371
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISBN
9781450390873
Source
HotNets 2021 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Event
20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2021, 2021-11-10 → 2021-11-12, Virtual, Online, United Kingdom
Series
HotNets 2021 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2021 Thomas Koch, Weifan Jiang, Tao Luo, Petros Gigis, Yunfan Zhang, Kevin Vermeulen, Emile Aben, Matt Calder, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Lefteris Manassakis, G. Smaragdakis, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez