MAPPING A COMMUNICATION TREE WITH CORRELATION OF PACKETS
GÁBOR J. SZABÓ · International Journal of Modern Physics C · 2005
We show how the connection structure of a loopless communication network may be discovered using only ubiquitous echo requests or as a byproduct of normal two-way transport. The key factor is the correlation effect in waiting times of successively sent messages, which is caused by background traffic on the routers.