The research was led by John Heidemann, a research professor at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute, and observed the day and night cycles of the world’s Internet usage, looking at 3.7 million of the 4 billion IPv4 Internet addresses every 11 minutes for two months. The goal of the study was to better understand Internet sleep cycles so as to not confuse them with Internet outages – a way for scientists and policymakers to develop better systems for measuring and tracking Internet outages, in order to better spot potential failures in the overall system (such as the Internet outage that happened after Hurricane Sandy). Watch the video below to learn more about the study:
(H/T Nerdist)
