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T. Munzner, E. Hoffman, k. claffy, and B. Fenner, "Visualizing the global topology of the MBone," in IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Oct 1996.
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Visualizing the global topology of the MBone
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T. Munzner E. Hoffman k. claffy B. Fenner
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IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 1996
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http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/1996/vgtm/
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2004-02-06
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We present a case study of visualizing the global topology of
the Internet MBone. The MBone is the Internet's multicast backbone. Multicast is
the most efficient way of distributing data from one sender to multiple
receivers with minimal packet duplication. Developed and initially deployed by
researchers within the Internet community, the MBone has been extremely popular
for efficient transmission across the Internet of real-time video and audio
streams such as conferences, meetings, congressional sessions, and NASA shuttle
launches. The MBone, like the Internet itself, grew exponentially with no
central authority. The resulting suboptimal topology is of growing concern to
network providers and the multicast research community.
We create a geographic representation of the tunnel structure as arcs on a
globe by resolving the latitude and longitude of MBone routers. The interactive
3D maps permit an immediate understanding of the global structure unavailable
from the data in its original form as lines of text with only hostnames and IP
addresses. Data visualization techniques such as grouping and thresholding allow
further analysis of specific aspects of the MBone topology. We distribute the
interactive 3D maps through the World-Wide Web using the VRML file format, thus
allowing network maintainers throughout the world to analyze the structure more
effectively than would be possible with still pictures or pre-made videos.
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