TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed systems and natural disasters
T2 - Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters, SWID'11
AU - Bischof, Zachary S.
AU - Otto, John S.
AU - Bustamante, Fabian E
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems represent some of the largest distributed systems in today's Internet. Among P2P systems, BitTorrent is the most popular, potentially accounting for 20 - 50% of P2P file-sharing traffic. In this paper, we argue that this popularity can be leveraged to monitor the impact of natural disasters and political unrest on the Internet. We focus our analysis on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and use a view from BitTorrent to show that it is possible to identify specific regions and network links where Internet usage and connectivity were most affected.
AB - Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems represent some of the largest distributed systems in today's Internet. Among P2P systems, BitTorrent is the most popular, potentially accounting for 20 - 50% of P2P file-sharing traffic. In this paper, we argue that this popularity can be leveraged to monitor the impact of natural disasters and political unrest on the Internet. We focus our analysis on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and use a view from BitTorrent to show that it is possible to identify specific regions and network links where Internet usage and connectivity were most affected.
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U2 - 10.1145/2079360.2079364
DO - 10.1145/2079360.2079364
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855709344
SN - 9781450310444
T3 - Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters, SWID'11
BT - Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters, SWID'11
Y2 - 6 December 2011 through 9 December 2011
ER -