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Visualizing the global topology of the Mbone |
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Author(s):
Tamara Munzner, Eric Hoffman, K. Claffy, Bill Fenner |
Institution:
Stanford University, Ipsilon Networks, NLANR, Xerox PARC |
Year:
1996 |
URL:
http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/papers/mbone/ |
Project Description:
"We present a case study of visualizing the global topology of the Internet MBone. Developed and initially deployed by researchers within the Internet community, the MBone has been extremely popular for efficient transmission across the Internet of real-time video and audio streams such as conferences, meetings, congressional sessions, and NASA shuttle launches. The MBone, like the Internet itself, grew exponentially with no central authority. The resulting suboptimal topology is of growing concern to network providers and the multicast research community.
We create a geographic representation of the tunnel structure as arcs on a globe by resolving the latitude and longitude of MBone routers. The interactive 3D maps permit an immediate understanding of the global structure unavailable from the data in its original form as lines of text with only hostnames and IP addresses. Data visualization techniques such as grouping and thresholding allow further analysis of specific aspects of the MBone topology."
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