Caracterização Temporal e Modelagem Matemática da Rede de Cabos Submarinos

• Rafael de Oliveira Costa UFRJ
• Daniel Ratton Figueiredo UFRJ

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wperformance.2023.231089

Abstract

Fiber optic cables laid under the sea (submarine cables) are responsible for 99% of today’s Internet traffic. Characterizing the evolution of the network composed by submarine cables is crucial for understanding the capacity and robustness of the Internet. Based on public data, this paper describes the evolution of the submarine cable network over more than three decades, presenting the temporal evolution of several network properties. Results indicate that this network has very particular properties, not found in other communication networks (such as absence of cycles and many connected components). Thus, a new model to represent the growth of the submarine cable network over time is proposed and evaluated in this work.

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