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| Internet Topology:Forces Behind A Shift From Hierarchical To Flattened Peering |
Peter Alphonce, Lusekelo Kibona
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Abstract:
Internet is a network of networks which share information to each other through Internet Protocol. Internet taxonomy was designed to not depend on a single point of access to propagate information from host source to host destination, this had led to dependability among Autonomous Systems for reachability and connectivity information. Internet, a highly engineered, large scale complex system, viewed as a hierarchy of connected tiers of Autonomous Systems from which lower tier depend on higher tier for routing mostly transit traffic; this paper discusses the current hierarchical topology of Internet and analyses the forces behind the trending flat peering of Autonomous Systems which raise concerns of a shift of Internet structure from hierarchical to flattened topology.
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