2008/01/27 by Gábor Simon, Gabor Simon, József Stéger +8
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Data Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #cs.NI #physics.data-an
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0801.4158
arxiv created 2008/01/27 · openalex publication_date 2008/01/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper we show how to go beyond the study of the topological properties of the Internet, by measuring its dynamical state using special active probing techniques and the methods of network tomography. We demonstrate this approach by measuring the key state parameters of Internet paths, the characteristics of queueing delay, in a part of the European Internet. In the paper we describe in detail the ETOMIC measurement platform that was used to conduct the experiments, and the applied method of queueing delay tomography. The main results of the paper are maps showing various spatial structure in the characteristics of queueing delay corresponding to the resolved part of the European Internet. These maps reveal that the average queueing delay of network segments spans more than two orders of magnitude, and that the distribution of this quantity is very well fitted by the log-normal distribution.