Flow Robustness of Multilevel Networks

Abstract

The Internet topology can be viewed at the physical-, router-, PoP-, and AS-level. Intuitively, a richly connected lower level can improve the resilience of a service at higher levels. Understanding the structure of the Internet from a multilevel point of view is more realistic than examining its properties at individual levels. We have developed a framework to analyse the robustness of multilevel and multiprovider networks. We show that multilevel graphs exhibit different performance from single level graphs. Moreover, our framework validates the robustness of the Internet core due to its rich connectivity.

Meeting Name

2013 9th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2013 (2013: Mar. 4-7, Budapest, Hungary)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sponsor(s)

National Science Foundation (U.S.)
European Commission
Battelle Memorial Institute

Keywords and Phrases

Individual Levels; Internet Core; Internet Topologies; Multi-Level Networks; Point of Views; Resilience; Single Level; Topology; Internet

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-1479900497

Electronic OCLC #

861073785

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2013

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