DIMES: let the internet measure itself

By Yuval Shavitt, Eran Shir. CCRV, 2005

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Today's Internet maps, which are all collected from a small number of vantage points, are falling short of being accurate. We suggest here a paradigm shift for this task. DIMES is a distributed measurement infrastructure for the Internet that is based on the deployment of thousands of light weight measurement agents around the globe. We describe the rationale behind DIMES deployment, discuss its design trade-offs and algorithmic challenges, and analyze the structure of the Internet as it seen with DIMES.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Dimension of spatially embedded networks (2011, background): “The Internet we study here has been mapped into a city network where a node represents a city and a link is established when there is a direct router connection between two citie”
A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition (2006, result): “The results of DIMES’ measurements can be analyzed to create several types of topologies, from the router level (where each node represents a single router on the Internet) to the Autonomous Systems (AS) topology (where each node is an entire subnetwork, managed by a single organization, usually an ”
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing (2006, methodology): “Sarmenta [17] articulated the idea of volunteer computing, and explored many of its technical issues.”
iPlane: an information plane for distributed services (2006, methodology): “Further, we are currently exploring the option of using data from DIMES [43], a system for aggregating low intensity measurements from normal PCs.”
Random Graphs and Complex Networks (2016, background): “See [226] for more details on Internet data.”
Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks (2010, unknown): “In SI-Section V we analyze the spreading eﬃciency in other networks not social in origin, like the Internet at the router level [20], with similar conclusions.”
AS relationships: inference and validation (2006, background): “On one hand, the identified deficiencies should inspire further pursuit of representative statistics on the number of p2p links, for example via the deployment of distributed measurement infrastructures [25].”