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Weekly SDI/LCS Seminar
Thursday, February 17
Noon - 1:00 pm
Wean Hall 8220
Contacts:   deb@cs.cmu.edu and karen@ece.cmu.edu

"Mapping the Internet"

ABSTRACT

The Internet has grown from the original four nodes in 1969 to an
estimated 60 million hosts today. The central backbone has been replaced
by multiple, interconnected backbones. The Internet's rapid growth and
decentralization of control has led to a network whose topology is
poorly understood. The goal of this project is to collect and archive
daily Internet topological information for future analysis. I will
discuss the details of the methodology employed, as well as some of the
technical and political challenges of mapping the Internet. I will also
review some analysis of the topological information obtained. I will
present future work to improve topological discovery, along with
additional analyses to perform.

BIO

Hal Burch received his B.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics, Computer
Science, and Physics from University of Missouri-Rolla in 1997. He is a
third-year doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University, where he is part of the PSciCo project. The
origin of the work presented is two summer internships at Bell
Laboratories.