Abstract
Information about the geographic locality of IP prefixes can be useful for understanding the issues related to IP address allocation, aggregation, and BGP routing table growth. In this paper, we use traceroute data and geographic mappings of IP addresses to study the geographic properties of IP prefixes and their implications on Internet routing. We find that (1) IP prefixes may be too coarsegrained for expressing routing policies, (2) address allocation policies and the granularity of routing contribute significantly to routing table size, and (3) not considering the geographic diversity of contiguous prefixes may result in overestimating the opportunities for aggregation in the BGP routing table.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 153-158 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| State | Published - 2005 |
| Event | 5th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement, IMC 2005 - Berkeley, CA, United States Duration: Oct 19 2005 → Oct 21 2005 |
Other
| Other | 5th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement, IMC 2005 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Berkeley, CA |
| Period | 10/19/05 → 10/21/05 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Computer Networks and Communications