[Planetlab-users] topology extraction

[Rob Sherwood]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:45:11AM -0800, $tamo$ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to  extract a network topology graph of the planetlab nodes, including the link bandwidth and the intermediate backbone?
> I am interested, also, to create this graph including my PC which is not a planetlab node
> 
> thank you,
> 
> kostas

Kostas,

Network topology discovery is an open research problem.  Myself[1] and
others have produced the intra-planetlab graph with various levels of
success.  Please mail me off list if you would like a copy of what I
have.

Cheers,

- Rob
.

[1] "Touring the Internet in a TCP Sidecar" IMC2006
      http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/sidecar