INTECIN   20395
INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA INGENIERIA "HILARIO FERNANDEZ LONG"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The Atlas Vision of IPv6 in Latin America: Topology and Latency
Autor/es:
ALVAREZ HAMELIN, JOSÉ IGNACIO; GRAMPÍN, EDUARDO ; KIEDANSKI, DIEGO
Lugar:
São Paulo
Reunión:
Conferencia; LANC '18, the 10th Latin America Networking Conference; 2018
Institución organizadora:
ACM
Resumen:
The emergence of Internet topology research a couple of decades ago has fuelled the appearance of a whole discipline, seeking to find fundamental statistical laws, based upon the deployment of measurement platforms that intent to gather evidence for such studies. Notably, CAIDA Ark and RIPE Atlas have been collecting variants of traceroute outputs for decades, leading to a consistent body of knowledge on the field. Nevertheless, it is well known that general repositories are not sufficient to assess specific research aspects, for example, trying to explore some geographic region. It is recommended to run particular campaigns, to reveal aspects usually hindered by extensive explorations; determining probes and hit lists is a problem of paramount importance in such endeavors. In the present work, we target IPv6 topology characteristics in Latin America, and consequently, we run our specific campaign over the RIPE Atlas platform. We study the IPv6 Latin America characteristics using such platform for exploration, and compare it with a Latin America subset of CAIDA results. It is shown that the statistical properties are maintained while notable improvement in the number of links is revealed in comparison to the Latin America CAIDA subset, despite the lesser size of our campaign. We also perform an inter-country latency analysis, seeking to further characterize IPv6 interconnection in Latin America, unyielding that some groups of countries remain better interconnected as also occurs in the IPv4 case.