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DDOS Mitigation Techniques-A Survey
May 2012
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are one of the most widely spread problems faced by most of the Internet Service Providers (ISP's) today. Mitigation of these attacks has gained utmost...
Provided by Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dynamic and Auto Responsive Solution for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Detection in ISP Network
Apr 2009
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and more particularly the distributed ones (DDoS) are one of the latest threat and pose a grave danger to users, organizations and infrastructures of the Internet....
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Application Security Market Trends for Service Providers: Security Approaches for Business-Critical Applications and Data in Today's Evolving Threat Landscape
Mar 2009
The protection of the applications and data that drive business processes and transactions is critical for ensuring business availability, employee productivity, revenue loss avoidance, and brand...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Motorola eCare: Virtual Hands-On Incident Resolution for Internet Service Providers
Feb 2008
With the scope of cable and broadband services delivered to residential and business subscribers growing ever more complex, support centers must be equipped with the right tools to...
Provided by Motorola
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White Papers
Targeted Interactive Advertising: A Killer Revenue App
Apr 2009
As the communications industry evolves from a network-centric view of the world to a user-oriented perspective, service providers are transforming their business models to create new revenue...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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Case Studies
NLOS Broadband Wireless Deployment for Small Town/Rural Markets
May 2008
This case study shows how a Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) broadband wireless Internet access system successfully serves a small town / rural market. Motorola Expedience NLOS system is deployed in six...
Provided by Motorola
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White Papers
"In the Cloud" Information Technology Creates New Opportunities for Network Service Providers
Aug 2008
For the past several years, incumbent telecommunications Service Providers (SPs1) have faced a decline in core legacy revenues, such as fixed-line voice and legacy packet data services in the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Trusted Internet Connection Architecture for Single Service Providers
Apr 2009
As federal agencies plan their migration toward compliance with the OMB mandate to consolidate Internet connections and reduce exposure to cyber threats, two architectural challenges must be...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Jiangmen Education Network System Protects User Access With StoneGate High Availability Firewall and VPN Solution
Jan 2010
The primary aim of this case study is to focus on the contribution of StoneGate VPN Solution and firewall application in bringing out effective business solutions and providing greater...
Provided by Stonesoft
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Case Studies
Lantronix Connects Servprise Customers to Remote Recovery
Jan 2010
Discussed in this case study is the connection of Servprise International with Lantronix, which deals into creating remote server management products for IT personnel. This paper talks about the...
Provided by Lantronix
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White Papers
Delivering Superior Customer Value in Communications Firms - CMO
Sep 2010
Find out how communications services firms and content providers are countering complex challenges by developing incisive ways of focusing on their customers - attracting more of their business...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Techniques for Probabilistic Multi-Layer Network Analysis
Oct 2008
The authors describe a prototype tool that analyzes combined aspects of reliability and performance for a variety of networks. The network-wide analysis systematically generates failure scenarios...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Connectivity and Stability at Failures in ISP Backbone Networks
Oct 2008
When a link or node failure occurs, flows are detoured around the failed portion, so the hop count of flows could change dramatically as a result of a failure. It is therefore important to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Optimal Relay Placement for Maximizing Path Diversity in Multipath Overlay Networks
Oct 2008
Providing a high level of the path diversity is a substantial criterion in designing an overlay network. Given a underlying network infrastructure, the diversity of the overlay paths largely...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Correlation Among Piecewise Unwanted Traffic Time Series
Oct 2008
This paper investigates the role of providers' market shares for consumers and websites on interconnection settlements between networks. The authors proposed to differentiate traffic into two...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Network Pruning for Energy Saving in the Internet
Mar 2012
Many scientific works propose methods of reducing the amount of energy consumed by the Internet. Although the structure of the Internet was not developed with specific attention to energy...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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White Papers
Subsidizing Creativity Through Network Design: Zero-Pricing and Net Neutrality
Jan 2009
The "Net Neutrality" debate, as it has emerged over the last five years, is a social, political and economic debate over the public information network known as the Internet and the duties of its...
Provided by Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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White Papers
Packet Forgery by ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair
Nov 2007
Comcast is the second largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States. They run the cable TV and cable Internet networks in many parts of the United States, and many consumers know...
Provided by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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White Papers
Can ISPs be Profitable Without Violating Network Neutrality
Jul 2008
At the core of the network neutrality debate the find that ISPs, in particular the last-mile Access Providers (APs), are trying to find new ways to be profitable, despite the fact that their...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
ISPs and Ad Networks Against Botnet Ad Fraud
Sep 2010
Botnets are a serious threat on the Internet and require huge resources to be thwarted. ISPs are in the best position to fight botnets and there are a number of recently proposed initiatives that...
Provided by LCA Mobile
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White Papers
One ISP Feels the Power of Virtualization
Aug 2007
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, Strato AG is the second-largest Internet Service Provider in Germany. With more than one million customers and platforms hosting more than three...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
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White Papers
Towards Interactive Debugging for ISP Networks
Dec 2009
The extreme complexity of Internet software leads to a rich variety of hard-to-isolate failure modes and anomalies. Research on debugging modern networked systems has thus far focused on "Removing...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
An SLA Perspective on the Router Buffer Sizing Problem
Oct 2007
In this paper, the authors discuss recent work on buffer sizing in the context of an ISP's need to offer and guarantee competitive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to its customers. Since SLAs...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
An Economic Model for Pricing Tiered Network Services
Apr 2009
The authors consider networks offering tiered services and corresponding price structures, a model that has become prevalent in practice. They develop an economic model for such networks and make...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Comparison of Overlay Routing and Multihoming Route Control
Jan 2011
The limitations of BGP routing in the Internet are often blamed for poor end-to-end performance and prolonged connectivity interruptions. Recent work advocates using overlays to effectively bypass...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
An Active Approach to Measuring Routing Dynamics Induced by Autonomous Systems
Jun 2007
The authors present an active measurement study of the routing dynamics induced by AS-path prepending, a common method for controlling the inbound traffic of a multi-homed ISP. Un-like other...
Provided by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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White Papers
Converged Billing for ISPs
Jul 2008
ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. Till now they are renowned for providing only internet access to the subscribers but the decade of 2000 is seeing growth of local loop telephony companies...
Provided by AdvancedVoIP
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White Papers
Geographic Properties of Internet Routing
Nov 2007
In this paper, the authors study the geographic properties of Internet routing. The work is distinguished from most previous studies of Internet routing in that they consider the geographic path...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Denali: A Scalable Isolation Kernel
Jan 2011
The Denali project provides system support for running several mutually distrusting Internet services on the same physical infrastructure. For example, this would enable a developer to push...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Pitfalls for ISP-Friendly P2P Design
Oct 2009
Peer-to-peer file sharing applications have become enormously popular over the past few years, coming to represent a large fraction of wide-area Internet traffic. A side effect of this explosive...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
Enlisting ISPs to Improve Online Privacy: IP Address Mixing by Default
Jun 2009
Today's Internet architecture makes no deliberate attempt to provide identity privacy - IP addresses are, for example, often static and the consistent use of a single IP address can leak private...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Whitepapers
D-MORE: Dynamic Mesh-Based Overlay Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure
Mar 2010
Traditionally, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to interconnect with content providers to provide network services to customers. The current business model that connectivity and bandwidth...
Provided by University of Gothenburg
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Whitepapers
The Internet-Wide Impact of P2P Traffic Localization on ISP Profitability
Mar 2012
The authors conduct a detailed simulation study to examine how localizing P2P traffic within network boundaries impacts the profitability of an ISP. A distinguishing aspect of their work is the...
Provided by Purdue Federal Credit Union
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White Papers
QoS-Revenue Tradeoff With Time-Constrained ISP Pricing
Apr 2010
Usage-based pricing has been recognized as a network congestion management tool. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), however, have limited ability to set time-adaptive usage-price to manage...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
P2P-ISP Cooperation: Risks and Mitigation in Multiple-ISP Networks
Aug 2009
Several proposals on P2P-ISP cooperation have recently been developed using information sharing for locality based peering. Their benefits in terms of P2P efficiency, ISP cost, and traffic...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
YouTube Traffic Dynamics and Its Interplay With a Tier-1 ISP: An ISP Perspective
Nov 2010
This paper conducts an extensive and in-depth study of traffic exchanged between YouTube data centers and its users, as seen from the perspective of a tier-1 ISP in Spring 2008 after YouTube was...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Cooperative Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering in an ISP Network
Jun 2009
Traditionally, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) make profit by providing Internet connectivity, while Content Providers (CPs) play the more lucrative role of delivering content to users. As...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
From Traffic Matrix to Routing Matrix: PoP Level Traffic Characteristics for a Tier-1 ISP
Jun 2010
Traffic matrices play a pivotal role in the management of an ISP's network such as various levels of traffic engineering and capacity planning. However, it is unclear how the interaction between...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
Design for Configurability: Rethinking Interdomain Routing Policies From the Ground Up
Nov 2008
Giving ISPs more fine-grain control over interdomain routing policies would help them better manage their networks and offer value-added services to their customers. Unfortunately, the current BGP...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
GreenCoop: Cooperative Green Routing With Energy-Efficient Servers
Feb 2010
Energy-efficient communication has recently become a key challenge for both researchers and industries. This paper proposes a new model in which a Content Provider and an Internet Service Provider...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Shifting Network Tomography Toward a Practical Goal
Dec 2011
Boolean Inference makes it possible to observe the congestion status of end-to-end paths and infer, from that, the congestion status of individual network links. In principle, this can be a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Improving Inter-Domain Fast Handover Using MIH Services in Mobile WiMAX
Nov 2012
Recently, the IP connectivity during the Mobile Node (MN) movement between Base Stations (BSs) belonging to different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is still a key issue to be tackled. In this...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
WiFi/WiMAX Seamless Convergence with Adaptive Vertical Handover for Continuity of Internet Access
Jul 2011
The next generation of the wireless networks will consist of several overlapping tiers. Provision of undisrupted communication to mobile users is a challenging task. Handover delay is one of the...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
Perfect Packets Reordering Generation Using High Index Degree Nodes Connectivity
Nov 2012
Workload distribution is critical to the performance of network processor based parallel forwarding systems. Scheduling schemes that operate at the packet level, e.g., round-robin cannot preserve...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Whitepapers
Model-Driven Server Allocation in Distributed Enterprise Systems
Feb 2009
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) usually use several server pools to host different web applications, to ensure smooth system management and minimum interference between applications. The...
Provided by University of Warsaw
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Whitepapers
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Enterprise Systems
Mar 2009
It is common that Internet service hosting centres use several logical pools to assign server resources to different applications, and that they try to achieve the highest total revenue by making...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Characterizing Locality-Aware P2P Streaming
Oct 2011
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) live streaming systems have been increasingly popular and successful in today's Internet, which provide large collections of video channels to millions of users at low server...
Provided by University of Hohenheim
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Whitepapers
Attack Mitigation Using Single Test Proportion
Mar 2012
The internet is the backbone of day to day applications. Today's responsibility for the internet service providers is to make sure that the internet service is available to the end user at all...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Whitepapers
Connectivity at Failures By ISPs with Minimum Cost
Mar 2012
Often users face risk of failures on many links or routers in Internet for various reasons, such as fiber cuts, failure of transmission devices, misconfiguration of routers and overloading of...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Whitepapers
Energy Saving and Network Performance: A Trade-Off Approach
Feb 2010
Power consumption of the Information and Communication Technology sector (ICT) has recently become a key challenge. In particular, actions to improve energy-efficiency of Internet Service...
Provided by Politecnico di Milano
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Whitepapers
A Unified Metric for Quality of Service Quantification
Mar 2009
Internet service providers usually express the quality of network services through a set of values determined according to several network performance parameters periodically collected or...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Adversarial VNet Embeddings: A Threat for ISPs?
Jan 2013
An Internet Service Provider's (ISP) network infrastructure and its properties often constitute a critical business secret, not only because the smarter investment of a given resource budget...
Provided by ABB Corporate Research Center
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Whitepapers
The Performance and Locality Tradeoff in BitTorrent-Like P2P File-Sharing Systems
Feb 2010
The recent surge of large-scale Peer-To-Peer (P2P) applications has brought huge amounts of P2P traffic, which significantly changes the Internet traffic pattern and increases the traffic-relay...
Provided by University of Hohenheim
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Whitepapers
Cooperative Caching and Relaying Strategies for Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery
Apr 2009
Peer-to-peer content distribution has become a major source of bandwidth costs for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). One way for ISPs to decrease these costs is to deploy caches for p2p traffic....
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Interaction Patterns Between P2P Content Distribution Systems and ISPs
May 2010
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) content distribution systems are a major source of traffic in the Internet, but the application layer protocols they use are mostly unaware of the underlying network in...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Cache-to-Cache: Could ISPs Cooperate to Decrease Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Costs?
Nov 2009
The authors consider whether cooperative caching may reduce the transit traffic costs of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) due to Peer-To-Peer (P2P) content distribution systems. They formulate...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
A FPGA-Based Scalable Architecture for URL Legal Filtering in 100GbE Networks
Oct 2012
Legal filtering is common practice in many countries to avoid access to websites with criminal or violent content. This kind of filtering is typically implemented at the edge routers of ISP's core...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Implementing a BGP-Free ISP Core With LISP
Apr 2012
The sustained growth pace of the global routing table is exerting an economical strain on ISPs by requiring untimely router upgrades. Notably, it has been speculated that the growth rate of router...
Provided by INRIA
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Whitepapers
Performance Analysis of OSPF and EIGRP Routing Protocols with Respect to the Convergence
Oct 2011
With the growth of Internet, the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) try to meet the increasing traffic demand by adopting new technology and improved utilization of existing resources. Routing of...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Efficient DFA Grouping for Traffic Identification
Nov 2012
Traffic Identification is a key function performed by Internet Service Providers' (ISP) administrators to evaluate and improve network services. However, traffic identification needs to be done in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
System for Management, Visualization and Maintenance of Infrastructural Resources
Nov 2010
Telecommunication has emerged as the revolutionary technology responsible for connecting distanced places into one global connected world. For such purposes, complex infrastructural objects have...
Provided by TELFOR
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Whitepapers
Network Positioning From the Edge: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Network Positioning in P2P Systems
Apr 2010
Network positioning systems provide an important service to large-scale P2P systems, potentially enabling clients to achieve higher performance, reduce cross-ISP traffic and improve the robustness...
Provided by Northwestern University
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Whitepapers
Dasu - ISP Characterization from the Edge: A BitTorrent Implementation
Aug 2011
Evaluating and characterizing access ISPs is critical to consumers shopping for alternative services and governments surveying the availability of broadband services to their citizens. The authors...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Crowdsourcing ISP Characterization to The Network Edge
Aug 2011
Evaluating and characterizing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is critical to subscribers shopping for alternative ISPs, companies providing reliable Internet services, and governments surveying...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
ISP-Enabled Behavioral Ad Targeting without Deep Packet Inspection
Nov 2009
Online advertising is a rapidly growing industry currently dominated by the search engine 'Giant' Google. In an attempt to tap into this huge market, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) started...
Provided by University of Gottingen
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Whitepapers
Extracting User Web Browsing Patterns from Non-Content Network Traces: The Online Advertising Case Study
Oct 2011
Online advertising is a rapidly growing industry currently dominated by the search engine 'Giant' Google. In an attempt to tap into this huge market, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) started...
Provided by Elsevier B.V.
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Whitepapers
Detecting the Unintended in BGP Policies
Sep 2012
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use routing policies to implement the requirements of business contracts, manage traffic, address security concerns and increase scalability of their network....
Provided by Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Whitepapers
Detecting Unsafe BGP Policies in a Flexible World
Sep 2012
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) need to balance multiple opposing objectives. On one hand, they strive to offer innovative services to obtain competitive advantages; on the other, they have to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Can P2P Technology Benefit Eyeball ISPs? a Cooperative Profit Distribution Answer
Dec 2012
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) technology has been regarded as a promising way to help Content Providers (CPs) cost-effectively distributes content. However, under the traditional Internet pricing mechanism,...
Provided by Tsihai
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Whitepapers
MPLS Traffic Engineering in ISP Network
Dec 2012
Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is an innovative and vibrant technology. The most famous applications of MPLS technology are MPLS VPN, MPLT Traffic engineering and MPLS QoS and Any Transport...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Getting Routers Out of the Core: Building an Optical Wide Area Network With "Multipaths"
Oct 2011
The authors propose an all-optical networking solution for a Wide Area Network (WAN) based on the notion of multipoint-to-multipoint light-paths that, for short, they call "Multipaths". A...
Provided by INRIA
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Case Studies
LINKdotNET: Internet Service Provider Boosts Security and Speeds Database Queries by 800 Percent
Jul 2009
LINKdotNET provides, maintains, develops, and promotes Internet solutions and services for consumers, prominent companies, and government agencies. Internet service provider LINKdotNET upgraded...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Demand Response for Non-Neutral Networks: Side-Payment Profitability and Convexity Modeling Congestion-Sensitive Applications
May 2012
This paper is concerned with the issue of side payments between Content Providers (CPs) and Internet Service (access bandwidth) Providers (ISPs) in an Internet that is potentially not neutral. The...
Provided by Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
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Whitepapers
Internet Routing Diversity for Stub Networks With a Map-and-Encap Scheme
May 2012
Routing diversity has been identified as essential for network robustness and traffic engineering. The Internet possesses by its very nature large path diversity. However this diversity cannot be...
Provided by INRIA
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Whitepapers
On the Difficulty of Counting Spam Sources
Jul 2010
A great deal of spam comes from botnets and there is considerable interest in arranging for the bots (the compromised machines) to be made secure. In practice, the owner of the compromised machine...
Provided by University of California, Santa Cruz
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Whitepapers
Caching the P2P Traffic in ISP Network
Apr 2008
The rise in Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networking has been tremendous in last several years. P2P traffic has significant impact on ISPs as it accounts for more than half of all traffic. Although many...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Taming the Torrent: A Practical Approach to Reducing Cross-ISP Traffic in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Aug 2008
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems, which provide a variety of popular services, such as file sharing, video streaming and voice-over-IP, contribute a significant portion of today's Internet traffic. By...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Design of Intelligent Multichannel Routing Processor Using VHDL
Jun 2012
Network router is a device or a piece of software in a computer that forwards and routes data packets along networks. A network router connects at least two networks, commonly two LANs or WANs or...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Load Balancing Program for Network Services
May 2012
ISP-servers system usually consist of many computers is strongly configured, and every computer often assumes a special function. This system often have some problems which are if one of servers...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
Automatic Protocol Signature Generation Framework for Deep Packet Inspection
May 2011
The authors present an automatic application protocol signature generating framework for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) techniques with performance evaluation. They propose to utilize algorithms...
Provided by ICST
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White Papers
Hulu in the Neighborhood
Apr 2011
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are in a constant race to meet the bandwidth demands of their subscribers. Access link upgrades, however, are expensive and take years to deploy. Many ISPs are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dynamic and Auto Responsive Solution for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Detection in ISP Network
Apr 2009
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and more particularly the distributed ones (DDoS) are one of the latest threat and pose a grave danger to users, organizations and infrastructures of the Internet....
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
-
White Papers
Application Security Market Trends for Service Providers: Security Approaches for Business-Critical Applications and Data in Today's Evolving Threat Landscape
Mar 2009
The protection of the applications and data that drive business processes and transactions is critical for ensuring business availability, employee productivity, revenue loss avoidance, and brand...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
White Papers
Motorola eCare: Virtual Hands-On Incident Resolution for Internet Service Providers
Feb 2008
With the scope of cable and broadband services delivered to residential and business subscribers growing ever more complex, support centers must be equipped with the right tools to...
Provided by Motorola
-
White Papers
Targeted Interactive Advertising: A Killer Revenue App
Apr 2009
As the communications industry evolves from a network-centric view of the world to a user-oriented perspective, service providers are transforming their business models to create new revenue...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
-
Case Studies
NLOS Broadband Wireless Deployment for Small Town/Rural Markets
May 2008
This case study shows how a Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) broadband wireless Internet access system successfully serves a small town / rural market. Motorola Expedience NLOS system is deployed in six...
Provided by Motorola
-
White Papers
"In the Cloud" Information Technology Creates New Opportunities for Network Service Providers
Aug 2008
For the past several years, incumbent telecommunications Service Providers (SPs1) have faced a decline in core legacy revenues, such as fixed-line voice and legacy packet data services in the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
White Papers
Trusted Internet Connection Architecture for Single Service Providers
Apr 2009
As federal agencies plan their migration toward compliance with the OMB mandate to consolidate Internet connections and reduce exposure to cyber threats, two architectural challenges must be...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
Case Studies
Jiangmen Education Network System Protects User Access With StoneGate High Availability Firewall and VPN Solution
Jan 2010
The primary aim of this case study is to focus on the contribution of StoneGate VPN Solution and firewall application in bringing out effective business solutions and providing greater...
Provided by Stonesoft
-
Case Studies
Lantronix Connects Servprise Customers to Remote Recovery
Jan 2010
Discussed in this case study is the connection of Servprise International with Lantronix, which deals into creating remote server management products for IT personnel. This paper talks about the...
Provided by Lantronix
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White Papers
Delivering Superior Customer Value in Communications Firms - CMO
Sep 2010
Find out how communications services firms and content providers are countering complex challenges by developing incisive ways of focusing on their customers - attracting more of their business...
Provided by SAP
-
Whitepapers
Techniques for Probabilistic Multi-Layer Network Analysis
Oct 2008
The authors describe a prototype tool that analyzes combined aspects of reliability and performance for a variety of networks. The network-wide analysis systematically generates failure scenarios...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Connectivity and Stability at Failures in ISP Backbone Networks
Oct 2008
When a link or node failure occurs, flows are detoured around the failed portion, so the hop count of flows could change dramatically as a result of a failure. It is therefore important to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Optimal Relay Placement for Maximizing Path Diversity in Multipath Overlay Networks
Oct 2008
Providing a high level of the path diversity is a substantial criterion in designing an overlay network. Given a underlying network infrastructure, the diversity of the overlay paths largely...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Correlation Among Piecewise Unwanted Traffic Time Series
Oct 2008
This paper investigates the role of providers' market shares for consumers and websites on interconnection settlements between networks. The authors proposed to differentiate traffic into two...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Network Pruning for Energy Saving in the Internet
Mar 2012
Many scientific works propose methods of reducing the amount of energy consumed by the Internet. Although the structure of the Internet was not developed with specific attention to energy...
Provided by Reed Business Information
-
White Papers
Subsidizing Creativity Through Network Design: Zero-Pricing and Net Neutrality
Jan 2009
The "Net Neutrality" debate, as it has emerged over the last five years, is a social, political and economic debate over the public information network known as the Internet and the duties of its...
Provided by Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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White Papers
Packet Forgery by ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair
Nov 2007
Comcast is the second largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States. They run the cable TV and cable Internet networks in many parts of the United States, and many consumers know...
Provided by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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White Papers
Can ISPs be Profitable Without Violating Network Neutrality
Jul 2008
At the core of the network neutrality debate the find that ISPs, in particular the last-mile Access Providers (APs), are trying to find new ways to be profitable, despite the fact that their...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
ISPs and Ad Networks Against Botnet Ad Fraud
Sep 2010
Botnets are a serious threat on the Internet and require huge resources to be thwarted. ISPs are in the best position to fight botnets and there are a number of recently proposed initiatives that...
Provided by LCA Mobile
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White Papers
One ISP Feels the Power of Virtualization
Aug 2007
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, Strato AG is the second-largest Internet Service Provider in Germany. With more than one million customers and platforms hosting more than three...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
-
White Papers
Towards Interactive Debugging for ISP Networks
Dec 2009
The extreme complexity of Internet software leads to a rich variety of hard-to-isolate failure modes and anomalies. Research on debugging modern networked systems has thus far focused on "Removing...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
An SLA Perspective on the Router Buffer Sizing Problem
Oct 2007
In this paper, the authors discuss recent work on buffer sizing in the context of an ISP's need to offer and guarantee competitive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to its customers. Since SLAs...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
-
White Papers
An Economic Model for Pricing Tiered Network Services
Apr 2009
The authors consider networks offering tiered services and corresponding price structures, a model that has become prevalent in practice. They develop an economic model for such networks and make...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
A Comparison of Overlay Routing and Multihoming Route Control
Jan 2011
The limitations of BGP routing in the Internet are often blamed for poor end-to-end performance and prolonged connectivity interruptions. Recent work advocates using overlays to effectively bypass...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
An Active Approach to Measuring Routing Dynamics Induced by Autonomous Systems
Jun 2007
The authors present an active measurement study of the routing dynamics induced by AS-path prepending, a common method for controlling the inbound traffic of a multi-homed ISP. Un-like other...
Provided by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
-
White Papers
Converged Billing for ISPs
Jul 2008
ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. Till now they are renowned for providing only internet access to the subscribers but the decade of 2000 is seeing growth of local loop telephony companies...
Provided by AdvancedVoIP
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White Papers
Geographic Properties of Internet Routing
Nov 2007
In this paper, the authors study the geographic properties of Internet routing. The work is distinguished from most previous studies of Internet routing in that they consider the geographic path...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Denali: A Scalable Isolation Kernel
Jan 2011
The Denali project provides system support for running several mutually distrusting Internet services on the same physical infrastructure. For example, this would enable a developer to push...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Pitfalls for ISP-Friendly P2P Design
Oct 2009
Peer-to-peer file sharing applications have become enormously popular over the past few years, coming to represent a large fraction of wide-area Internet traffic. A side effect of this explosive...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
Enlisting ISPs to Improve Online Privacy: IP Address Mixing by Default
Jun 2009
Today's Internet architecture makes no deliberate attempt to provide identity privacy - IP addresses are, for example, often static and the consistent use of a single IP address can leak private...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Whitepapers
D-MORE: Dynamic Mesh-Based Overlay Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure
Mar 2010
Traditionally, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to interconnect with content providers to provide network services to customers. The current business model that connectivity and bandwidth...
Provided by University of Gothenburg
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Whitepapers
The Internet-Wide Impact of P2P Traffic Localization on ISP Profitability
Mar 2012
The authors conduct a detailed simulation study to examine how localizing P2P traffic within network boundaries impacts the profitability of an ISP. A distinguishing aspect of their work is the...
Provided by Purdue Federal Credit Union
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White Papers
QoS-Revenue Tradeoff With Time-Constrained ISP Pricing
Apr 2010
Usage-based pricing has been recognized as a network congestion management tool. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), however, have limited ability to set time-adaptive usage-price to manage...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
P2P-ISP Cooperation: Risks and Mitigation in Multiple-ISP Networks
Aug 2009
Several proposals on P2P-ISP cooperation have recently been developed using information sharing for locality based peering. Their benefits in terms of P2P efficiency, ISP cost, and traffic...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
YouTube Traffic Dynamics and Its Interplay With a Tier-1 ISP: An ISP Perspective
Nov 2010
This paper conducts an extensive and in-depth study of traffic exchanged between YouTube data centers and its users, as seen from the perspective of a tier-1 ISP in Spring 2008 after YouTube was...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Cooperative Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering in an ISP Network
Jun 2009
Traditionally, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) make profit by providing Internet connectivity, while Content Providers (CPs) play the more lucrative role of delivering content to users. As...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
From Traffic Matrix to Routing Matrix: PoP Level Traffic Characteristics for a Tier-1 ISP
Jun 2010
Traffic matrices play a pivotal role in the management of an ISP's network such as various levels of traffic engineering and capacity planning. However, it is unclear how the interaction between...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
Design for Configurability: Rethinking Interdomain Routing Policies From the Ground Up
Nov 2008
Giving ISPs more fine-grain control over interdomain routing policies would help them better manage their networks and offer value-added services to their customers. Unfortunately, the current BGP...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
GreenCoop: Cooperative Green Routing With Energy-Efficient Servers
Feb 2010
Energy-efficient communication has recently become a key challenge for both researchers and industries. This paper proposes a new model in which a Content Provider and an Internet Service Provider...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
