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Indeed, the most common framework for Internet measurements of this type is a\n            <jats:italic>beacon-based approach<\/jats:italic>\n            one chooses uniformly at random a constant number of nodes (\u201cbeacons\u201d) in the network, each node measures its distance to all beacons, and one then has access to only these measurements for the remainder of the algorithm. Moreover, beacon-based algorithms are often designed not for embedding but for the more basic problem of\n            <jats:italic>triangulation<\/jats:italic>\n            , in which one uses the triangle inequality to infer the distances that have not been measured.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            Here we give algorithms with provable performance guarantees for beacon-based triangulation and embedding. We show that in addition to multiplicative error in the distances, performance guarantees for beacon-based algorithms typically must include a notion of\n            <jats:italic>slack<\/jats:italic>\n            \u2014a certain fraction of all distances may be arbitrarily distorted. For metric spaces of bounded doubling dimension (which have been proposed as a reasonable abstraction of Internet latencies), we show that triangulation-based distance reconstruction with a constant number of beacons can achieve multiplicative error 1 + \u03b4 on a 1 \u2212 \u03f5 fraction of distances, for arbitrarily small constants \u03b4 and \u03f5. For this same class of metric spaces, we give a beacon-based embedding algorithm that achieves constant distortion on a 1 \u2212 \u03f5 fraction of distances; this provides some theoretical justification for the success of the recent Global Network Positioning algorithm of Ng and Zhang [2002], and it forms an interesting contrast with lower bounds showing that it is not possible to embed\n            <jats:italic>all<\/jats:italic>\n            distances in a doubling metric space with constant distortion. 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