{"id":553,"date":"2014-10-16T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2020-10-19T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:12:40","slug":"welcoming-greece-to-the-ant-internet-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"welcoming Greece to the ANT Internet Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.edu\/ant\/address\/browse\/?kind=round-trip-time&amp;source=g&amp;date=2014-08-29%20(it61)&amp;scale=2&amp;center=132.42.158.170\">welcome Greece<\/a> to&nbsp;our browsable Internet map at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.edu\/ant\/address\/browse\/\">http:\/\/www.isi.edu\/ant\/address\/browse\/<\/a>&nbsp;! &nbsp;Of course Greece has always been <em>in <\/em>our Internet censuses, but George Xylomenos and George Polyzos of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aueb.gr\">Athens University of Economics and Business<\/a>&nbsp;(their <a href=\"http:\/\/mm.aueb.gr\">lab<\/a>) helped set up a new observation site. &nbsp;Greece now provides a new&nbsp;<em>vantage point<\/em>&nbsp;for Internet censuses.<\/p>\n<p>The differences in the census are small, as one would hope, since it&#8217;s a global Internet. &nbsp;However, when we look at latency (the time it takes for an IP address to reply to our requests), Greece gives us a European view.<\/p>\n<p>Compare the lower-left corner of the Internet, since that is European IPv4 address space:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61g_rtt_141015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61g_rtt_141015-300x289.png\" alt=\"it61g RTTs\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61g_rtt_141015-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61g_rtt_141015-768x741.png 768w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61g_rtt_141015.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Round-trip times from our Greek vantage point (in AUEB.gr) to the world. Observe that European IP addresses in the lower left corner are nearby (light colored).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-557\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61w_rtt_141015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-557 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61w_rtt_141015-300x289.png\" alt=\"it61w RTTs\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61w_rtt_141015-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61w_rtt_141015-768x741.png 768w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it61w_rtt_141015.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Round-trip times from our Los Angeles-based vantage point (at isi.edu) to the world. Observe that European IP addresses in the lower left corner are distant (darker gray).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to big thanks to&nbsp;George Xylomenos and George Polyzos of AUEB (\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c5\u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ce!) and AUEB for institutional funding for this work. &nbsp;We also thank Christos Papadopoulos (Colorado State) for helping with many details, and Colin Perkins (U. Glasgow) for discussions about potential European hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Data from our Greece census is available to researchers at no cost on the same terms as our existing census data. &nbsp;See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.edu\/ant\/traces\/index.html\">our datasets page<\/a> for details. Greek data starts with it61 as of 2014-08-29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to welcome Greece to&nbsp;our browsable Internet map at&nbsp;http:\/\/www.isi.edu\/ant\/address\/browse\/&nbsp;! &nbsp;Of course Greece has always been in our Internet censuses, but George Xylomenos and George Polyzos of the Athens University of Economics and Business&nbsp;(their lab) helped set up a new observation site. &nbsp;Greece now provides a new&nbsp;vantage point&nbsp;for Internet censuses. 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