[Planetlab-users] topology extraction

[Arijit Mukherjee]

Hi

This is something I'm interested in as well - I'm working on grid and
distributed systems, such as OGSA-DQP where I can make use of such a
topology while generating a distributed query plan.

Regards
Arijit

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: users-bounces at planet-lab.org 
>[mailto:users-bounces at planet-lab.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sherwood
>Sent: 14 February 2008 15:36
>To: $tamo$
>Cc: users at lists.planet-lab.org
>Subject: Re: [Planetlab-users] topology extraction
>
>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
>
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