Find Out: How Do Your Data Packets Travel?

Thomas Dreibholz; Somnath  Mazumdar

doi:10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965091

Find Out: How Do Your Data Packets Travel?

Thomas Dreibholz, Somnath Mazumdar

Department of Digitalization

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Abstract

In today’s communication-centric world, users generate and exchange a massive amount of data. The Internet helps user data to travel from one part of the world to another, via a complex set of network systems. These systems are intelligent, heterogeneous, and non-transparent to users. This paper presents an extensive, trace-driven study of user data traffic covering five years of observations, six large ISPs, 22 different autonomous systems, and a total of 12 countries. This work aims to make users aware of how their data travels in the Internet, as the interests of ISPs majorly influence the data traffic path. Although data traffic should prefer to travel through countries that share land borders, we found that the shortest land distance between the two countries does not impact data path selection.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management. CNSM 2022 : Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services
Editors	Marinos Charalambides, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Walter Cerroni, Salil Kanhere, Lefteris Mamatas
Number of pages	5
Place of Publication	Laxenburg
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	Oct 2022
Pages	359-363
ISBN (Print)	9783903176515
ISBN (Electronic)	9783903176515
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965091
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022
Event	18th International Conference on Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 31 Oct 2022 → 4 Nov 2022 Conference number: 18 http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2022/

Conference

Conference	18th International Conference on Network and Service Management
Number	18
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	31/10/2022 → 04/11/2022
Internet address	http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2022/

Series	International Conference on Network and Service Management
ISSN	2165-963X

Keywords

Autonomous systems
Internet
Network systems

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Dreibholz, T., & Mazumdar, S. (2022). Find Out: How Do Your Data Packets Travel? In M. Charalambides, P. Papadimitriou, W. Cerroni, S. Kanhere, & L. Mamatas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management. CNSM 2022 : Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services (pp. 359-363). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965091

Dreibholz, Thomas ; Mazumdar, Somnath . / Find Out : How Do Your Data Packets Travel?. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management. CNSM 2022 : Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services. editor / Marinos Charalambides ; Panagiotis Papadimitriou ; Walter Cerroni ; Salil Kanhere ; Lefteris Mamatas. Laxenburg : IEEE, 2022. pp. 359-363 (International Conference on Network and Service Management).

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Dreibholz, T & Mazumdar, S 2022, Find Out: How Do Your Data Packets Travel? in M Charalambides, P Papadimitriou, W Cerroni, S Kanhere & L Mamatas (eds), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management. CNSM 2022 : Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services. IEEE, Laxenburg, International Conference on Network and Service Management, pp. 359-363, 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management, Thessaloniki, Greece, 31/10/2022. https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965091

Find Out: How Do Your Data Packets Travel? / Dreibholz, Thomas; Mazumdar, Somnath .
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management. CNSM 2022 : Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services. ed. / Marinos Charalambides; Panagiotis Papadimitriou; Walter Cerroni; Salil Kanhere; Lefteris Mamatas. Laxenburg: IEEE, 2022. p. 359-363 (International Conference on Network and Service Management).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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Dreibholz T, Mazumdar S. Find Out: How Do Your Data Packets Travel? In Charalambides M, Papadimitriou P, Cerroni W, Kanhere S, Mamatas L, editors, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management. CNSM 2022 : Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services. Laxenburg: IEEE. 2022. p. 359-363. (International Conference on Network and Service Management). doi: 10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9965091