[Nets-seminars] UCL EE seminar announcement

[Richard G. Clegg]

This Friday's seminar 11th October 2013 will take place at 16:00 in 
66-72 Gower Street, room GS/102.  I hope that you will be able to join 
us.  The speaker in Noa Zilberman from Cambridge.

The Internet PoP-Level Map

ABSTRACT:

Service providers tend to place multiple routers in a single location 
called a Point of Presence (PoP), which serves a certain area. Inferring 
PoP level maps is gaining interest due to its importance to many areas, 
e.g., for tracking the Internet evolution and studying its properties. 
In this talk I introduce a novel structural approach to automatically 
generate large scale Internet PoP level maps using traceroute 
measurements from multiple locations.  As an example for the usage of 
PoPs, I show how they can be used to test the accuracy of IP Geolocation 
services. I also introduce other applications of PoP level maps, such as 
leveraging them to improve AS Type of Relationships (ToR) inference. The 
last part of this talk sets the foundations to the development of an 
evolution model of the Internet at the PoP level, using geographical, 
economical and demographical information to achieve an understanding of 
the dynamics of the Internet's structure.


BIO:

Noa Zilberman is a Research Associate in the System Research Group, 
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Her research interests 
include open-source network research using the NetFPGA platform, network 
performance, routing and switching architectures, Internet measurements 
and topology. In her last roles before joining the System Research 
Group, she was a researcher in the DIMES project and a chip architect in 
Broadcom's Network Switching group.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/