About CDNs, theory, AS/IP mapping, ...

Some papers I found interesting.

• Tom Leighton from Akamai Technologies on Improving Performance on the Internet (2008): http://mags.acm.org/queue/200810/?pg=24
• Towards an Accurate AS-Level Traceroute Tool (2003): http://www.routeviews.org/papers/AS_traceroute.pdf
• Predicting Internet Network Distance with. Coordinates-Based Approaches (2002): http://www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/papers/INFOCOM02.pdf
• IDMaps: A Global Internet Host Distance Estimation Service (2001): http://idmaps.eecs.umich.edu/papers/ton01.pdf
• Geographic Locality of IP Prefixes: http://www.coralcdn.org/docs/ipgeo-imc05.pdf
• On the scale and performance of cooperative web proxy caching (1999): http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/classes/fa01/cse222/papers/wolman-coopcache-sosp99.pdf
• An interesting and related research topic is the reasonability of P2P traffic with regard to network topology, called ''Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)'' problem. See http://alto.tilab.com/. (See P2P in wikipedia for overview about swarm downloading technologies.)

About Autonomous Systems and Network Topology

• General introduction to autonomous systems: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_9-1/autonomous_system_numbers.html
• 32-bit AS numbers coming soon. Be prepared! http://www.menog.net/meetings/menog2/presentations/philip-smith-32bit-asn.pdf
• Useful reports on Geoff Huston's site, updated daily: the IPv6 / IPv4 Comparative Statistics, 32-bit AS Number Report and 16-bit AS Number Report, and an overview on AS resource allocation by ISO-3166 code
• CIDR report: http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/
• GeoIP: http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location
• Team Cymru's IP to ASN Mapping: http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/ip-to-asn.html

Metalinks

• http://www.metalinker.org/
• Transparent negotiation of metalinks: http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/web/transparent-metalinks
• IETF Internet Draft (w.i.p.): http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalink

Practical hints for web server operators

• High performance web serving: http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/Apachecon-EU2005/scaling-apache-handout.pdf
• http://kb.pert.geant2.net/PERTKB/ApacheScaling
• Clever load sharing and failover through IP clustering: http://www.linux-ha.org/ClusterIP
• Mirror setup and Apache DoS protection: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Setup_Howto#Protection_of_resources

Worldwide Internet Connectivity

• Broadband Internet access worldwide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access_worldwide
• On the development of broadband access in rural and remote areas (2003): http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/38/40/31718094.pdf
• Number of Internet users by country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Internet

Trivia

• The official ISO 3166-1 decoding table: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table
• ISO 3166 country codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
• Flag icons: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/
• FTP vs. HTTP http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/ftp-vs-http.html
• A way to programmatically generate flow maps. Would be nice to play with. http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/flow_map_layout/

Old Stuff, but interesting

• SuperSparrow: http://www.supersparrow.org/
• Globule: an Open-Source Content Distribution Network: http://www.globule.org/
• Netairt: a DNS redirector: http://www.globule.org/netairt/
• Coral Content Distribution Network: http://www.coralcdn.org/