Title
Studying the evolution of content providers in IPv4 and IPv6 internet cores.
Abstract
There is recent evidence that the core of the Internet, which was formerly dominated by large transit providers, has been reshaped after the transition to a multimedia-oriented network, first by general-purpose CDNs and now by private CDNs. In this work we use k-cores, an element of graph theory, to define which ASes compose the core of the Internet and to track the evolution of the core since 1999. Specifically, we investigate whether large players in the Internet content and CDN ecosystem belong to the core and, if so, since when. In addition, we examine differences between the IPv4 and IPv6 cores. We further investigate regional differences in the evolution of large content providers. Finally, we show that the core of the Internet has incorporated an increasing number of content ASes in recent years. To enable reproducibility of this work, we provide a website to allow interactive analysis of our datasets to detect, for example, “up and coming” ASes using customized queries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.comcom.2019.05.022
Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Content providers,CDNs,Topology,k-cores
IPv6,Graph theory,IPv4,World Wide Web,Interactive analysis,Computer science,Computer network,The Internet
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
145
0140-3664
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Esteban Carisimo110.70
Carlos Selmo210.70
J. Ignacio Alvarez-hamelin314313.31
Amogh Dhamdhere475847.69