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ISP Interconnectivity in Uganda
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Network latency has a major impact on performance connecting to the most commonly visited sites on the Internet. This project intended to construct a view of Inter-domain peering in Uganda, analyse the impact of deployment of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and caching proxies at the UIXP and map the locations of the most commonly visited sites by Ugandan users. Using passive and active techniques of Internet measurement, the project gathered and collected Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing data. Latencies to the most commonly visited sites by Ugandan users were measured and Internet Protocol (IP) Geolocation tools used to map their location. The project also looked at the historic traffic patterns at the UIXP particularly before and after June 2016 and before and after November 2017 where Akamai Technologies and Google Global Cache (GGC) respectively, deployed at the UIXP. The project established that only 8.3% of the most commonly visited sites on the Internet by Ugandan users are hosted in Uganda with an average latency of 36.6 ms. The project also observed a 78.2% reduction in latency to a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) based service cached at the UIXP by Akamai. The project further captured a snapshot of inter-domain peering at the UIXP. In view of these findings, the project concluded that there is a steady growth of traffic at the UIXP attributed to the deployment of the two content providers present and the many peer to peer links between the members present there. The UIXP thus offers a redundant path to international transit and content providers, thus increasing reliability. (2.472Mb)
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MATOVU, RONALD
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/4279
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