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Understanding Web Hosting Utility of Chinese ISPs

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Management Enabling the Future Internet for Changing Business and New Computing Services (APNOMS 2009)

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By the end of 2008, China has 298 millions of Internet users served by 214 ISPs. But little is known to researchers about the details of these ISPs. In this paper, we try to understand web hosting utility of Chinese ISPs. After a brief introduction to ISPs in China, we use a simple and general method to uncover the web hosting information of ISPs including websites and web pages they host. We present a metric to evaluate the web hosting utility based on a new model which relies on public available data. Finally, a ranking of Chinese ISPs is given according to their web hosting utility. We analyze this ranking from the point of view such as IP allocation and geographical features. We believe that results of this work are not only helpful for researchers to understand networks in China, but also beneficial to interdomain capacity planning in China.

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  1. The Network Research Center, Tsinghua University, China

    Guanqun Zhang, Hui Wang & Jiahai Yang

  2. Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Beijing, China, PA, 100084

    Guanqun Zhang, Hui Wang & Jiahai Yang

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, 1 Seocheon, Giheung, Yongin, 446-701, Gyeonggi, South Korea

    Choong Seon Hong

  2. Service Platforms Laboratories, NEC Corporation, 1753, Shimonumabe, Nakahara-Ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211, 8666, Japan

    Toshio Tonouchi

  3. Information Network Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, 100876, Beijing, China

    Yan Ma

  4. Department of Communications Engineering, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Road, Seatwen, 40724, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chi-Shih Chao

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Zhang, G., Wang, H., Yang, J. (2009). Understanding Web Hosting Utility of Chinese ISPs. In: Hong, C.S., Tonouchi, T., Ma, Y., Chao, CS. (eds) Management Enabling the Future Internet for Changing Business and New Computing Services. APNOMS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5787. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04492-2_2

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