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Tesi etd-09032009-160046


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea specialistica
Autore
IMPROTA, ALESSANDRO
URN
etd-09032009-160046
Titolo
Analysis of the Internet Structure at the Autonomous System Level of Abstraction: the role of Internet Exchange Points on a worldwide and European scale
Dipartimento
INGEGNERIA
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA
Relatori
relatore Prof. Lenzini, Luciano
relatore Ing. Gregori, Enrico
relatore Prof. Prete, Cosimo Antonio
Parole chiave
  • IX
  • IXP
  • AS-level map
  • AS-level
  • Internet
  • Betweenness
  • Shortest path
  • Regional Internet
  • Graph theory
  • Degree
  • Clustering coefficient
  • Average neighbors degree
  • Shortest path length
  • Internet Exchange Points
  • Internet topology
  • Internet map
  • ISP
  • Registries
  • Internet registries
  • Betweenness centrality
  • Internet map
  • Internet scenario
  • Tier 1
  • Tiering
  • Internet Service Providers
  • Autonomous Systems
  • AS
  • topology
Data inizio appello
08/10/2009
Consultabilità
Non consultabile
Data di rilascio
08/10/2049
Riassunto
The Internet is the largest masterpiece ever created by the human race. Since its birth, it has evolved from a simple couple of nodes in the United States to a complicated set of many thousands of interconnections between networking and telecommunications companies, and it is now used by a great part of the World's population. Despite this, the Internet is still evolving and far to be stuck. One of the hottest issues discussed in the last years has been the discovery of the connections between the companies that are forming the actual Internet and their relationships. However, despite significant research activity the real topology has not yet been fully discovered and, most of all, the geographical distribution of such companies has not been fully investigated. Needless to say, having a correct model of topology of the Internet would be important, mostly to test protocols, but also to plan networks and for failure detection purposes. Moreover, the geographical distribution of the Autonomous Systems would allow to verify the robustness of the Internet in each region. Several efforts have been made so far in the research activities, but it is rare to find any work that consider them all together. This thesis attempts to analyze data collected from several of those studies in order to have a more detailed view of the real topology and, moreover, will introduce the Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in that topology, underlining the important role that these facilities play in the Internet environment. In addition to this, a framework will also be provided to link this topology to the real World, assigning to each AS one or more geographical location, that permitted the identification of different Internet behaviors in different continents and countries, reflecting the real issues that those regions have to face (e.g. costly long-distance carriers or poverty or geographical obstacles). This thesis will analyze deeply every continent in the World and will focus mostly on European Internet, analyzing some of the most important countries in Europe and two macro-regions (European Union and post-Soviet countries). A complementary work has been developed by Chiara Orsini in "Analysis of the Internet Structure at the Autonomous System Level of Abstraction: the role of Internet Exchange Points on a worldwide scale and outside Europe" introducing the most important non-European countries, including U.S.A., Japan and Australia.
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