Internet Architecture

• Simple Overivew
  • http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.html

• Place to Start to Understand Network Topology Terminology
  • http://internet2.motlabs.com/topology.htm
  • Good Example of a Paper:
    • B. Huffaker, M. Fomenkov, D. Moore, and E. Nemeth, "Measurements of the Internet Topology in the Asia-Pacific Region", Internet Society Network Conference (INET), Tokyo, JAPAN, July 2000.

History of the Internet

• General Information
  • http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

• Detailed History from ISOC
  • http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

• Book on the History of the Internet
  • K. Hafner and M. Lyon, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet", Touchstone Books, January 1998.

• Time Line
  • http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

Current and Historical Snapshots

• Topology Project
  • http://topology.eecs.umich.edu/

• Internet Mapping Project
  • http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/ches/map/

• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
  • http://www.caida.org/tools/

• Cyber-Geography Research
  • http://www.cybergeography.org/

Background on Routing

• Christian Huitema, "Routing in the Internet (second edition)", Prentice Hall PTR, January 2000.

Routing Stability

• C. Labovitz, G. Malan, and F. Jahanian, "Internet Routing Instability", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 6, num. 5, pp. 515-528, October 1998.

• L. Wang, X. Zhao, D. Pei, R. Bush, D. Massey, A. Mankin, S. Wu, and L. Zhang, "Observation and Analysis of BGP Behavior Under Stress", Internet Measurement Workshop, Marseille, FRANCE, November 2002.

• J. Rexford, J. Wang, Z. Xiao, Y. Zhang, "BGP Routing Stability of Popular Destinations", Internet Measurement Workshop, Marseille, FRANCE, November 2002.

Understand Internet Structure

• H. Tangmunarunkit, R. Govindan, S. Jamin, S. Shenker, and W. Willinger", "Network Topologies, Power Laws, and Hierarchy", USC Technical Report #USC-CS-01-746,

• H. Chang, S. Jamin, and W. Willinger, "Inferring AS-level Internet Topology From Router-Level Path Traces", SPIE ITCom Conference on Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks (STCIPN), Denver, Colorado, USA, August 2001.