CIS Associate Professor Rejaie Featured in UO CASCADE Magazine
The Winter 2015 edition of UO CASCADE Magazine featured an article on Associate Professor Reza Rejaie's research on mapping internet connections around the world. Here is a sample of the article:
Averting Internet Disaster
Mapping "Carrier Hotels" to Predict Descriptions and Potential Fixes
A classic art deco building in Manhattan—60 Hudson Street—is now a modern hub for Internet communication.
The former Western Union building (pictured), which spans an entire block in midtown Manhattan, was built in the 1920s as a headquarters for a breakthrough 20th-century technology: the telegraph. Today, it houses banks of computers that carry Internet traffic for more than 60 telecom companies.
Buildings such as these are found the world over. They’re called “carrier hotels,” and they’re the key to a critical question about the Internet: How would a terrorist attack, a hurricane or even a power outage in one place affect connectivity for users elsewhere?
Believe it or not, we don’t know much about the vulnerabilities of the Internet when it comes to potential disruptions such as these. But Reza Rejaie, an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, has found a way to answer these critical questions...
Check out the rest of the article under the "Natural Sciences" section in the Winter 2015 edition of CASCADE Magazine.