Discovering Routers As Secondary Landmarks For Accurate Ip Geolocation

IP geolocation determines geographic location by the IP address of Internet hosts. The physical location of Internet hosts is critical for many location-aware applications. Most geolocation methods are based on linear assumption of correlation between network latency and geographic distance on a large scale. In this paper, a lightweight geolocation approach is proposed to accurately determine the location of Internet hosts. This approach takes advantage of relative delay measurement and common routers. We studied localized delay-distance correlation in small region. We proposed an approach of discovering the accurate positions of common routers and converted common routers as secondary landmarks on a small scale and evaluated the efficiency of our method in the city level. The evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the accuracy of IP geolocation by about 9.5% compared to Street-level Geolocation (SLG), one of the latest methods.