Publication detail

On Geographic Coordinates of PlanetLab Europe

KOMOSNÝ, D. PRUŽINSKÝ, J. IĽKO, P. POLÁŠEK, P. MAŠEK, P. KOCATEPE, O.

Original Title

On Geographic Coordinates of PlanetLab Europe

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

PlanetLab is a global IP research network of computers located across the world. The primary aim of PlanetLab is to support evaluation and deployment of new IP communication technologies. Due to its global scale, PlanetLab is used as an experimental testbed for a number of geographically oriented research. Therefore, the geographical properties of the PlanetLab nodes are of significant importance for correct and trustworthy results of the experiments. In the paper, we analyse the geographical properties of PlanetLab Europe, which is the European part of the PlanetLab global network. It describes different methods used for estimating the location information correctness provided for the PlanetLab nodes. The results show that the nodes location is commonly burdened with an error varying from units to hundreds of kilometres. We propose a location uncertainty index to assist the PlanetLab users with a proper selection of the nodes for their experiments. The location index allows a selection of the nodes for the experiments requiring diverse input location accuracy data. We used the proposed index to evaluate the location accuracy of the PlanetLab Europe nodes. We estimate that below 1 % of the active PlanetLab Europe nodes have a maximum location error less than 1 km, 42 % less than 5 km, 60 % less than 10 km, and 85 % less than 100 km.

Keywords

PlanetLab, Europe, location, geolocation, accuracy, coordinates, MaxMind

Authors

KOMOSNÝ, D.; PRUŽINSKÝ, J.; IĽKO, P.; POLÁŠEK, P.; MAŠEK, P.; KOCATEPE, O.

RIV year

2014

Released

3. 7. 2015

Location

Prague

ISBN

978-1-4799-8498-5

Book

38th International Conference on Telecommunication and Signal Processing

Edition number

1

Pages from

642

Pages to

646

Pages count

5

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7296342

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT108327,
  author="Dan {Komosný} and Ján {Pružinský} and Pavol {Iľko} and Pavel {Polášek} and Pavel {Mašek} and Oguzhan {Kocatepe}",
  title="On Geographic Coordinates of PlanetLab Europe",
  booktitle="38th International Conference on Telecommunication and Signal Processing",
  year="2015",
  number="1",
  pages="642--646",
  address="Prague",
  doi="10.1109/TSP.2015.7296342",
  isbn="978-1-4799-8498-5",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7296342"
}