Projects

Projects

Selected tools, visualizations, and research threads around Internet measurement, topology, performance, and infrastructure.

Tools and resources

M-Lab Global Comparison

Built from M-Lab's public NDT speed tests and traceroute data, this dashboard compares Internet performance to Google Cloud virtual servers and physical M-Lab measurement servers worldwide, with latency and traceroute-path views refreshed monthly.

Starlink Speedtest Comparison

Cloudflare and M-Lab speed-test comparisons by geography, destination, and ISP.

Hypergiants Evolution

Interactive views of CDN, IXP, facility, city, country, and continent-level hypergiant infrastructure growth.

Internet Visualization Exhibition

A venue for Internet structure, behavior, and evolution visualizations, co-organized with Paul Barford.

Research threads

MetAScritic topology inference figure

AS-level topology inference

metAScritic treats hidden interconnection discovery as a recommendation problem: measure a small set of strategic links, infer the rest.

HERMES performance monitoring diagram

Open Internet health monitoring

HERMES repurposes user-driven speed tests to detect performance degradations and localize where problems likely begin.

Animated manifold visualization of network latency

Manifold views of private backbones

Lightweight latency measurements and Riemannian geometry expose hidden structure in hyperscaler connectivity.

APNIC validation comparison figure

APNIC user-population estimates

Cross-validating APNIC per-AS estimates against independent baselines to understand where the dataset is reliable.

Geopolitical Internet infrastructure visualization

Routing, borders, and state control

BGP and routing-data studies of how political geography, conflict, and state policy shape Internet infrastructure.

Long-form project descriptions are in the projects archive. The complete paper list is on the Publications page.