TY - GEN
T1 - Quantifying the effects of circuitous routes on the latency of intra-africa internet traffic
T2 - 6th International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2014
AU - Chavula, Josiah
AU - Feamster, Nick
AU - Bagula, Antoine
AU - Suleman, Hussein
N1 - Funding Information:
We are thankful to the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) for their financial support towards this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Despite an increase in the number of Internet eXchange Points (IXP) in Africa, as well as proliferation of submarine and terrestrial fibre optic cable systems, the level of peering among Africa’s Internet service providers remains low. Using active network measurements, this work characterizes the level of interconnectivity and peering among Africa’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), and examines the performance of traffic exchange in terms of latencies. This paper shows that over 75% of Africa’s inter-university traffic follows circuitous inter-continental routes, and is characterised by latencies that are more than double those of traffic exchanged within the continent.
AB - Despite an increase in the number of Internet eXchange Points (IXP) in Africa, as well as proliferation of submarine and terrestrial fibre optic cable systems, the level of peering among Africa’s Internet service providers remains low. Using active network measurements, this work characterizes the level of interconnectivity and peering among Africa’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), and examines the performance of traffic exchange in terms of latencies. This paper shows that over 75% of Africa’s inter-university traffic follows circuitous inter-continental routes, and is characterised by latencies that are more than double those of traffic exchanged within the continent.
KW - Active topology measurements
KW - Internet exchange points
KW - Latency
KW - National Research and Education Networks
KW - Peering
KW - Round-trip time
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-16886-9_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-16886-9_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84977112057
SN - 9783319168852
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 64
EP - 73
BT - e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries - 6th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2014, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Sansa-Otim, Julianne
A2 - Nungu, Amos
A2 - Pehrson, Bjorn
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 24 November 2014 through 25 November 2014
ER -