Hop Count Measurement Between Autonomous Systems Using a Combination of Active and Passive Monitoring

Abstract

End-to-end Internet Quality of Service (QoS) is likely to rely on the hop count, the number of traversed routers. In this paper, we pose the results of the measurements of hop count from a source at Keimyung University towards several destinations spread over the world by using both active and passive measurements. In case of active data, we used traceroute base inferring to measure hops between host IP-addresses, while for passive data, we utilise shortest path approach from BGPview AS graph to infer exact hop count between ASes.