Where the sidewalk ends
Kai Chen, David Choffnes, Rahul Potharaju, Yan Chen, Fabián E. Bustamante, Dan Pei, Yao Zhao · 2009
An accurate Internet topology graph is important in many areas of networking, from deciding ISP business relationships to diagnosing network anomalies. Most Internet mapping efforts have derived the network structure, at the level of interconnected autonomous systems (ASes), from a limited number of either BGP- or traceroute- based data sources. While techniques for charting the topology continue to improve, the growth of the number of vantage points is significantly outpaced by the rapid growth of the Internet.