A server-to-server view of the internet
B. Chandrasekaran, Georgios Smaragdakis, Arthur Berger, Matthew J. Luckie, Keung-Chi Ng · 2015
While the performance characteristics of access networks and end-user-to-server paths are well-studied, measuring the performance of the Internet's core remains, largely, an uncharted territory. With more content being moved closer to the end-user, server-to-server paths have increased in length and have a significant role in dictating the quality of services offered by content and service providers. In this paper, we present a large-scale study of the effects of routing changes and congestion on the end-to-end latencies of server-to-server paths in the core of the Internet.