References & Sources - January 16, 1999

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Diagnosing the Internet's ills

Researchers are developing software for tracking data traffic, mapping usage patterns, and depicting the Internet's global structure.

References:

Claffy, K., T.E. Monk, and D. McRobb. 1999. Internet tomography. Nature. Available at http://helix.nature.com/webmatters/tomog.html.

Further Readings:

Peterson, I. 1998. Fractal models for data traffic. Science News 154(Oct. 17):255.

Additional information about the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) is available at http://www.caida.org/. For more details about the skitter software tool, see http://www.caida.org/Tools/Skitter.

Sources:

K. Claffy
CAIDA
UCSD/SDSC
9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Stop 0505
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 3, January 16, 1999, p. 37. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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