TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a traffic map of the Internet Connecting the dots between popular services and users
T2 - 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2021
AU - Koch, Thomas
AU - Jiang, Weifan
AU - Luo, Tao
AU - Gigis, Petros
AU - Zhang, Yunfan
AU - Vermeulen, Kevin
AU - Aben, Emile
AU - Calder, Matt
AU - Katz-Bassett, Ethan
AU - Manassakis, Lefteris
AU - Smaragdakis, Georgios
AU - Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119436758&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3484266.3487371
DO - 10.1145/3484266.3487371
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119436758
T3 - HotNets 2021 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
SP - 23
EP - 30
BT - HotNets 2021 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Y2 - 10 November 2021 through 12 November 2021
ER -