Implementation and Deployment of a Distributed Network Topology Discovery Algorithm
| dc.creator | Donnet, Benoit | |
| dc.creator | Huffaker, Bradley | |
| dc.creator | Friedman, Timur | |
| dc.creator | claffy, kc | |
| dc.date | 2006-03-16 | |
| dc.date | 2006-03-21 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:05:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:05:51Z | |
| dc.description | In the past few years, the network measurement community has been interested in the problem of internet topology discovery using a large number (hundreds or thousands) of measurement monitors. The standard way to obtain information about the internet topology is to use the traceroute tool from a small number of monitors. Recent papers have made the case that increasing the number of monitors will give a more accurate view of the topology. However, scaling up the number of monitors is not a trivial process. Duplication of effort close to the monitors wastes time by reexploring well-known parts of the network, and close to destinations might appear to be a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack as the probes converge from a set of sources towards a given destination. In prior work, authors of this report proposed Doubletree, an algorithm for cooperative topology discovery, that reduces the load on the network, i.e., router IP interfaces and end-hosts, while discovering almost as many nodes and links as standard approaches based on traceroute. This report presents our open-source and freely downloadable implementation of Doubletree in a tool we call traceroute@home. We describe the deployment and validation of traceroute@home on the PlanetLab testbed and we report on the lessons learned from this experience. We discuss how traceroute@home can be developed further and discuss ideas for future improvements. | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603062 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603062 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/109813 | |
| dc.subject | Networking and Internet Architecture | |
| dc.title | Implementation and Deployment of a Distributed Network Topology Discovery Algorithm | |
| dc.type | text |