Related Work
Early reports on non-uniformity of Internet backbone traffic.
- Injecting inter-AS routes into intra-AS routing system
- Parameterized methodology for flows
- Claffy, Braun, Polyzos (‘93)
Both studies suggest that traffic displays high non-uniformity.
- Some routes are much more used than others.
Why?
- One guess is the Internet traffic reflects geographical and demographical concentration of Internet users.