Who the Internet depends on

A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.

Measurement rather than attack: where the traffic actually goes, and how few places carry it. No adversary appears — the fragility is structural.

15 references

‘Friendshoring’ the seabed: Securing submarine cables through network centrality
Samuel Bashfield et al. (2026) · European Journal of International Security
On the capacity of optical backbone networks
João J. O. Pires (2024) · Network
Following the Data Trail: An Analysis of IXP Dependencies
Malte Tashiro et al. (2024) · International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Network diversity, market entry, and the global internet backbone
El Hadi Caoui et al. (2023)
Nautilus: A Framework for Cross-Layer Cartography of Submarine Cables and IP Links
Alagappan Ramanathan et al. (2023) · Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
Technological Prospection and Requirements of 800G Transmission Systems for Ultra-long-haul All-optical Terrestrial Backbone Networks
Dechao Zhang et al. (2023) · Journal of Lightwave Technology
The Effect of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict from the Perspective of Internet eXchanges
Cristian Trusin et al. (2022)
Solar superstorms: planning for an internet apocalypse
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (2021) · Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference
Flow-Data Gathering Using NetFlow Sensors for Fitting Malicious-Traffic Detection Models
Adrián Campazas-Vega et al. (2020) · Sensors
Measuring the fragmentation of the Internet: the case of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) during the Ukrainian crisis
Frédérick Douzet et al. (2020) · 12th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)
Untangling the world-wide mesh of undersea cables
Zachary S. Bischof et al. (2018) · Proceedings of the 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
The elusive internet flattening: 10 years of IXP growth
Timm Böttger et al. (2018)
Internet eXchange points: current challenges and new opportunities
Roberto Di Lallo (2018)
Evolution of Terrestrial Optical System and Core Network Architecture
Andreas Gladisch et al. (2006) · Proceedings of the IEEE
The quantitative impact of survivable network architectures on service availability
Mark R. Wilson (1998) · IEEE Communications Magazine