Untangling the world-wide mesh of undersea cables
Untangling the world-wide mesh of undersea cables
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解开全球海底电缆网
DOI：
10.1145/3286062.3286074
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发表时间：
2018
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通讯作者：
F. Bustamante
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作者：
Zachary S. Bischof;Romain Fontugne;F. Bustamante
全球互联网流量的增长推动了海底电缆网络的指数级扩张，无论是在链路的绝对数量还是其总容量方面。今天，一个由数百条电缆组成的复杂网络，延伸超过100万公里，几乎连接了地球的每个角落，并有助于缩小剩余的连接差距。尽管海底网络对商业和社会都具有规模和关键作用，但我们的社区大多忽略了它，在大多数互联网研究中，从连通性到域间流量和可靠性，都将其视为一个黑匣子。我们提出了一个新的研究议程，重点是描述全球海底网络的特征，以及它作为任何洲际端到端连接的基本组成部分所起的关键作用。
The growth of global Internet traffic has driven an exponential expansion of the submarine cable network, both in terms of the sheer number of links and its total capacity. Today, a complex mesh of hundreds of cables, stretching over 1 million kilometers, connects nearly every corner of the earth and is instrumental in closing the remaining connectivity gaps. Despite the scale and critical role of the submarine network for both business and society at large, our community has mostly ignored it, treating it as a black box in most Internet studies, from connectivity to inter-domain traffic and reliability. We make the case for a new research agenda focused on characterizing the global submarine network and the critical role it plays as a basic component of any inter-continental end-to-end connection.