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Today's talk (which I foolishly advertised as happening last Friday
in a previous email) 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
is Noa Zilberman from Cambridge.<br>
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The Internet PoP-Level Map<br>
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ABSTRACT:<br>
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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.<br>
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BIO:<br>
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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.<span><font
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a>
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