Dissertation: Download in UFPR repository at https://acervodigital.ufpr.br/handle/1884/17234
Title: A New Internet Topology Generator (2008)
Overview:
The NIT is a Internet topology generator based on the Inet 3.0 [Winick and Jamin, 2002] generator, but it takes advantage of the new models for the metrics. It also includes new metrics in the topology generation process. The results of the NIT topology generator are better than those of the Inet 3.0 in all evaluated metrics for more recent topologies. In this way, the NIT produces synthetic topologies more similar to the current Internet than the Inet 3.0 does. The results show that the composition of distance and distance-based metrics, connectivity metric and degree distribution may be used to build a new generation of topology generators that resemble the current Internet characteristics more accurately.
University Federal of Paraná -UFPR - Curitiba/Brazil Technical Report (pdf) describes NIT.
NIT source-code:
The latest version (version 0.50b) of New Internet Topology Generator - NIT - be found here. NIT requires GCC compiler and source code has been compiled on Unix systems:
Publications:
Joylan N. Maciel and Cristina D. Murta. "Análise da Topologia dos Sistemas Autônomos da Internet baseada em Métricas de Distância em Grafos ". C3N 2007: II Congresso da Academia Trinacional de Ciências , Short-paper, 2007.
Joylan N. Maciel and Cristina D. Murta. "Um Novo Gerador de Topologias da Internet". SBRC' 2008: 26º Brazilian Simposy of Computers Networks, pages 51–63, 2008. (publication reference to NIT version 0.30b).
Joylan N. Maciel. "Um Novo Gerador de Topologias da Internet". Master Thesis. Federal University of Paraná - UFPR, 2008. (describes results for latest version of NIT - 0.50b - in Portuguese).
Joylan N. Maciel and Cristina D. Murta. "NIT: A New Internet Topology Generator". In Proceedings of the 15th Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6.6 Workshop on The Internet of the Future (EUNICE '09), Miquel Oliver and Sebastian; Sallent (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 108-117, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03700-9_12