Techniques for Determining the Geographic Location of IP Addresses in ISP Topology Measurement

• Published in: Journal of computer science and technology Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 689 - 701
• Main Authors: Jiang, Yu, Fang, Bin-Xing, Hu, Ming-Zeng, Cui, Xiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Springer Nature B.V 01.09.2005; School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China%School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China; National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center, Beijing 100029, P.R. China%National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center, Beijing 100029, P.R. China
• Subjects: Domain names; Empirical analysis; Geographical locations; Inference; Internet; Internet service providers; IP (Internet Protocol); Position (location); Routers; Studies; Topology; URLs; routing; domain name; network topology; Internet topology measurement; network deployment structure; whois information; geographic location

A brief survey on the state-of-the-art research of determining geographic location of IP addresses is presented. The problem of determining the geographic location of routers in Internet Service Provider (ISP) topology measurement is discussed when there is inadequate information such as domain name...