Where is My Next Hop ? The Case of Indian Ocean Islands

TL;DR

This paper presents a large-scale measurement study of Internet topology and performance in the Indian Ocean Area, revealing that most traffic exits through a single point despite multiple options.

Contribution

It introduces a new measurement approach with deployed probes and a tool for analyzing Internet topology and traffic flow in IOA countries.

Findings

Most IOA traffic exits through a single point.

Multiple exit points exist but are underutilized.

Enhanced understanding of IOA Internet topology and traffic patterns.

Abstract

Internet has become a foundation of our modern society. However, all regions or countries do not have the same Internet access regarding quality especially in the Indian Ocean Area (IOA). To improve this quality it is important to have a deep knowledge of the Internet physical and logical topology and associated performance. However, these knowledges are not shared by Internet service providers. In this paper, we describe a large scale measurement study in which we deploy probes in different IOA countries, we generate network traces, develop a tool to extract useful information and analyze these information. We show that most of the IOA traffic exits through one point even if there exists multiple exit points.