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Competition, Market Coverage, and Quality Choice in Interconnected Platforms
Jun 2009
The authors study duopoly competition between two interconnected Internet Service Providers (ISP) that compete in quality and prices for both Content Providers (CP) and consumers. They develop a...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Detecting Traffic Differentiation in Backbone ISPs With NetPolice
Nov 2009
Traffic differentiations are known to be found at the edge of the Internet in broadband ISPs and wireless carriers. The ability to detect traffic differentiations is essential for customers to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Effective Diagnosis of Routing Disruptions From End Systems
Feb 2008
Internet routing events are known to introduce severe disruption to applications. So far effective diagnosis of routing events has relied on proprietary ISP data feeds, resulting in limited...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Ascertaining the Reality of Network Neutrality Violation in Backbone ISPs
Jan 2011
On the Internet today, a growing number of QoS sensitive network applications exist, such as VoIP, imposing more stringent requirements on ISPs besides the basic reachability assurance. Thus, the...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
On the Inadequacy of Link Connectivity Monitoring
Jul 2008
Internet backbone networks are constantly evolving along several dimensions such as technology, protocols, and features. The rapid rate of this evolution often places a tremendous amount of burden...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Improving User and ISP Experience Through ISP-Aided P2P Locality
Jul 2008
Despite recent improvements, P2P systems are still plagued by fundamental issues such as overlay/underlay topological and routing mismatch, which affects their performance and causes traffic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multi-Agent System for Automation of B2C Processes in the Future Internet
Jul 2008
The concept of New Generation Network (NGN) will define roles and relationships in the future Internet. The fierce competition among players in the Information and CommunicaTion (ICT) industry...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On the Rise and Fall of ISPs
Jul 2009
The Internet topology has witnessed significant changes over the years with the rise and fall of several Internet Service Providers (ISP). In this paper, the authors propose a new economic model...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Can ISPs Be Profitable Without Violating "Network Neutrality"?
Aug 2008
At the core of the network neutrality debate the authors find that ISPs, in particular the last-mile Access Providers (APs), are trying to find new ways to be profitable, despite the fact that...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Evaluating Cooperative Web Caching Protocols for Emerging Network Technologies
Jan 2011
While bandwidth for previous IP backbone networks deployed by Internet Service Providers typically has been limited to 34 Mbps, current and future IP networks provide bandwidth ranging from 155...
Provided by University of Dortmund
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Whitepapers
Measuring Resilience in Multi-Carrier Emergency and Critical Telecommunications Systems
Sep 2008
The ability to provide critical communications, particularly during disasters, is essential for National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP). The authors present a quantitative study of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Should Users Be Entitled to Run the Applications of Their Choice on Wireless Networks?
Nov 2010
The authors examine whether wireless ISPs should be able to legally limit the applications used on wireless devices. The analysis is based on wireless network architecture and communications law....
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
FIRE: FInding Rogue nEtworks
Jun 2010
For many years, online criminals have been able to conduct their illicit activities by masquerading behind disreputable Internet Service Providers (ISPs). For example, organizations such as the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
From Multiple Decompositions to TRUMP: Traffic Management Using Multipath Protocol
Apr 2008
Traffic management is the adaptation of source rates and routing to efficiently utilize network resources. Traffic management today includes congestion control, routing and traffic engineering. In...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Cooperative Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering
Aug 2008
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
To Change Traffic Engineering, Change the Traffic Matrix
Nov 2010
Traditional traffic engineering adapts the routing of traffic within the network to maximize performance. The authors propose a new approach to traffic engineering that also adaptively changes...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Optimizing Cost and Performance in Online Service Provider Networks
Mar 2010
The authors present a method to jointly optimize the cost and the performance of delivering traffic from an Online Service Provider (OSP) network to its users. The method, called Entact, is based...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Performance Analysis and Special Issues of Broadband Strategies in the Computer Communication
Nov 2009
Broadband communications consists of the technologies and equipment required to deliver packet based digital voice, video, and data services to end users. Broadband affords end users high-speed,...
Provided by Anna University
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White Papers
Morpheus: Enabling Flexible Interdomain Routing Policies
Oct 2007
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
Collaborative Detection of DDoS Attacks Over Multiple Network Domains
Dec 2007
This paper presents a new distributed approach to detecting DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services) flooding attacks at the traffic-flow level. The new defense system is suitable for efficient...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On the Efficiency of Collaborative Caching in ISP-Aware P2P Networks
Jan 2011
Collaborative ISP caching has been advocated to reduce the otherwise significant amount of costly inter-ISP traffic generated by Peer-To-Peer (P2P) applications. The fundamental design criteria...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Deep Diving Into BitTorrent Locality
Feb 2011
A substantial amount of work has recently gone into localizing BitTorrent traffic within an ISP in order to avoid excessive and often times unnecessary transit costs. Several architectures and...
Provided by University Carlos III of Madrid
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White Papers
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users
Dec 2009
An accurate Internet topology graph is important in many areas of networking, from deciding ISP business relationships to diagnosing network anomalies. Most Internet mapping efforts have derived...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
TopBT: A Topology-Aware and Infrastructure-Independent BitTorrent Client
Mar 2010
BitTorrent (BT) has carried out a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet traffic. While several designs have been recently proposed and implemented to improve the resource...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
End-to-End Detection of ISP Traffic Shaping Using Active and Passive Methods
Sep 2010
The authors present end-to-end measurement methods for the detection of traffic shaping. Traffic shaping is typically implemented using token buckets, allowing a maximum burst of traffic to be...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
DiffProbe: Detecting ISP Service Discrimination
Jan 2010
The authors propose an active probing method, called Differential Probing or DiffProbe, to detect whether an access ISP is deploying forwarding mechanisms such as priority scheduling, variations...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
A Value-Based Framework for Internet Peering Agreements
Jun 2010
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use complex peering policies, stipulating various rules for peering with other networks. Peering strategy is often considered a "Black art" rather than science,...
Provided by Georgia Tech
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White Papers
Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation
Mar 2010
A confluence of technical, business, and political interests has made "Network neutrality" a hot button issue. The debate revolves around whether and to what extent Internet Service Providers...
Provided by Microsoft Research
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White Papers
Group Key Management Protocols: A Novel Taxonomy
Dec 2010
The phenomenal growth of the Internet in the last few years and the increase of bandwidth in today's networks have provided both inspiration and motivation for the development of new services,...
Provided by Université de Technologie de Compiègne
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White Papers
Communities of Interest for Internet Traffic Prioritization
Apr 2009
Communities Of Interest (COI) have been studied in the past to classify traffic within an enterprise network, and to mitigate Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The authors investigate the use of...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Reducing Cross-ISP Traffic of P2P Systems: The End or the Beginning of P2P Traffic Control
Dec 2009
As Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems are widely deployed in the Internet, P2P traffic control becomes a challenge for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and P2P system vendors. Some recent works consider...
Provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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White Papers
Understanding and Modeling the Internet Topology: Economics and Evolution Perspective
Feb 2010
In this paper, the authors seek to understand the intrinsic reasons for the well-known phenomenon of heavy-tailed degree in the Internet AS graph and argue that in contrast to traditional models...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Detecting Network Neutrality Violations With Causal Inference
Dec 2009
The authors present NANO, a system that detects when ISPs apply policies that discriminate against specific classes of applications, users, or destinations. Existing systems for detecting...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Cooperative Caching: The Case for P2P Traffic
May 2009
This paper analyzes the potential of cooperative proxy caching for Peer-To-Peer (P2P) traffic as a means to ease the burden imposed by P2P traffic on Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
ISP-Friendly Peer Matching Algorithms
Aug 2008
In Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems, a receiving peer needs to be matched with multiple sending peers, because peers have limited capacity and reliability. The authors study the following peer-matching...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Traffic Modeling and Proportional Partial Caching for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Dec 2008
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing systems generate a major portion of the Internet traffic, and this portion is expected to increase in the future. The authors explore the potential of deploying...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On the Benefits of Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic
Jul 2010
This paper analyzes the potential of cooperative proxy caching for Peer-To-Peer (P2P) traffic as a means to ease the burden imposed by P2P traffic on Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Analysis of Open Environment Sign-In Schemes-Privacy Enhanced & Trustworthy Approach
May 2011
The third party based authentications possess users' privacy concerns in an open environment such as links and traces user identities across various services. The cryptographic schemes for...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Wresting Control From BGP: Scalable Fine-Grained Route Control
Jan 2011
Today's Internet users and applications are placing increased demands on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver fine-grained, flexible route control. To assist network operators in...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
A2C: Anti-Attack Counters for Traffic Measurement
Mar 2010
Flow-level sampling methods have been widely studied and extensively employed in network traffic measurement systems. Current approaches mainly focus on improving the performance under normal...
Provided by Dublin City University
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Whitepapers
Measuring Resilience in Multi-Carrier Emergency and Critical Telecommunications Systems
Sep 2008
The ability to provide critical communications, particularly during disasters, is essential for National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP). The authors present a quantitative study of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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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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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
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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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
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
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
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
Time-Dependent Broadband Pricing: Feasibility and Benefits
Mar 2011
Charging different prices for Internet access at different times induces users to spread out their bandwidth consumption across times of the day. Potential impact on ISP revenue, congestion...
Provided by Princeton University
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Whitepapers
TUBE: Time-Dependent Pricing for Mobile Data
Aug 2012
The two largest U.S. wireless ISPs have recently moved towards usage-based pricing to better manage the growing demand on their networks. Yet usage-based pricing still re-quires ISPs to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Design and Analysis of ISP-Friendly File Distribution Protocols
Nov 2008
In recent years, BitTorrent-like file-swarming applications are becoming so popular that they contribute to a large percentage of the current Internet traffic. Internet Service Providers (ISPs)...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Whitepapers
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Dec 2009
An accurate Internet topology graph is important in many areas of networking, from deciding ISP business relationships to diagnosing network anomalies. Most Internet mapping efforts have derived...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Topology Discovery at the Router Level: A New Hybrid Tool Targeting ISP Networks
May 2011
For a long time, traceroute measurements combined with alias resolution methods have been the sole way to collect Internet router level maps. Recently, a new approach has been introduced with the...
Provided by Université de Strasbourg
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Whitepapers
ISP-Supported Traffic Reduction for Application-Level Multicast
Apr 2011
The paper proves that it is possible to optimize application-level multicast operation from the viewpoint of traffic flows. A modification of the FreePastry/Scribe application is proposed to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
iBGP Deceptions: More Sessions, Fewer Routes
Jan 2012
Internal BGP (iBGP) is used to distribute inter-domain routes within a single ISP. The interaction between iBGP and the underlying IGP can lead to routing and forwarding anomalies. For this...
Provided by Roma Tre University
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Webcasts
How to Choose the Best Internet Service Provider (ISP) for Your Needs
Jan 2012
In this Webcast the presenter describes how to choose the best Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the needs. The presenter also describes about the experience of other users with various ISPs.
Provided by Videojug
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Webcasts
Internet Providers and Hosting Services
Jan 2012
In this Webcast the presenter describes about "Internet Service Provider" (ISP). An Internet service provider is the backbone of what really allows one to get on the World Wide Web. This is the...
Provided by Videojug
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Whitepapers
Content Retrieval Using Cloud-Based DNS
Jan 2012
Cloud-computing systems are rapidly gaining momentum, providing flexible alternatives to many services. The authors study the Domain Name System (DNS) service, used to convert host names to IP...
Provided by Purdue University
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Whitepapers
Pricing, Competition and Innovation: A Profitable Business Model to Resolve the Tussle Involved in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Applications
Aug 2011
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) streaming applications have lead to the disharmony among the involved parties: Content Service Providers (CSPs), Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and P2P streaming End-Users...
Provided by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Whitepapers
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
Adaptive Probabilistic Flooding for Multipath Routing
Apr 2011
In this paper, the authors develop a distributed source routing algorithm for topology discovery suitable for ISP transport networks that is however inspired by opportunistic algorithms used in ad...
Provided by Telecom ParisTech
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White Papers
Rehoming Edge Links for Better Traffic Engineering
Mar 2012
Traditional traffic engineering adapts the routing of traffic within the network to maximize performance. The authors propose a new approach that also adaptively changes where traffic enters and...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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White Papers
An Adaptive Peer Selection Scheme With Dynamic Network Condition Awareness
Dec 2011
Locality-based peer selection paradigms have been proposed recently based on cooperation between Peer-To-Peer (P2P) service providers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and end users in order to...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
A Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Traffic Limiting Policy for ISP Networks
Dec 2011
As a scalable paradigm for content distribution at Internet-wide scale, Peer-To-Peer (P2P) technologies have enabled a variety of networked services, such as distributed file-sharing and live...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
An Empirical Study on the Interactions Between ALTO-Assisted P2P Overlays and ISP Networks
Dec 2011
The recently proposed Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) framework has opened up a new dimension for Internet traffic management that is complementary to the traditional...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
Usage of Pythagorean Triple Sequence in OSPF
Feb 2012
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have an obligation to observe the conditions set in the Service Level Agreements (SLA) with their customers. One of the conditions is to ensure that ISPs minimize...
Provided by Scientific Research Publishing
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White Papers
Pricing and Revenue Sharing Strategies for Internet Service Providers
Jan 2012
One of the challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. This calls for economic mechanisms that can enable providers to charge more for...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
An ISP-Friendly File Distribution Protocol: Analysis, Design and Implementation
Aug 2009
In the past few years, P2P file distribution applications (e.g., BitTorrent) are becoming so popular that they are the dominating source of Internet traffic. This creates significant problems to...
Provided by University of Hong Kong
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White Papers
Improving Throughput and Node Proximity of P2P Live Video Streaming Through Overlay Adaptation
Sep 2007
Due to the heterogeneity of the environment, in which hosts may have different bandwidth capacities and network distances between hosts vary, current mesh-based multicast protocols for video...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Network Prefix-Level Traffic Profiling: Characterizing, Modeling, and Evaluation
Jul 2010
A cardinal prerequisite for the proper and efficient management of a network, especially an ISP network, is to understand the traffic that it carries. Traffic profiling is a means to obtain...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Inter-Domain Collaborative Routing (IDCR): Server Selection for Optimal Client Performance
Apr 2011
Communication between institutions, or domains, residing in the Internet requires a route to be created between the routing domains. Each of these domains is controlled by a single administrative...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
On the Identifiability of Multi-Observer Hidden Markovmodels
Jan 2012
Most large attacks on the Internet are distributed. As a result, such attacks are only partially observed by any one Internet Service Provider (ISP). Detection would be significantly easier with...
Provided by University of Adelaide
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White Papers
Network Traces of Virtual Worlds: Measurements and Applications
Feb 2011
Although network traces of virtual worlds are valuable to ISPs (Internet Service Providers), virtual world software developers, and research communities, they do not exist in the public domain. In...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Observing Slow Crustal Movement in Residential User Traffic
Dec 2008
It is often argued that rapidly increasing video content along with the penetration of high-speed access is leading to explosive growth in the Internet traffic. Contrary to this popular claim,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Hierarchical Architecture for Detecting Selfish Behaviour in Community Wireless Mesh Networks
May 2010
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) consist of dedicated nodes called mesh routers which relay the traffic generated by mesh clients over multi-hop paths. In a community WMN, all mesh routers may not be...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
End-2-End Evaluation of IP Multimedia Services, a User Perceived Quality of Service Approach
May 2008
Providing Quality of Service (QoS) has always been an important task for Internet Service Providers. However, the proliferation of new multimedia content services has turned it a vital and...
Provided by Universidad De La Republica
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White Papers
Evaluation of Free-Riding Traffic Problem in Overlay Routing and Its Mitigation Method
Dec 2008
Recent research on overlay networks has revealed that user-perceived network performance could be improved by an overlay routing mechanism. The effectiveness of overlay routing is mainly a result...
Provided by Osaka University
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White Papers
On the Packet Delay Distribution in Power-Law Networks
May 2009
Measurement studies of the Internet topology have revealed that the degree distribution exhibits a power-law attribute. In this paper, the authors investigate packet-level delay behavior of...
Provided by Osaka University
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White Papers
Decreasing ISP Transit Cost in Overlay Routing Based on Multiple Regression Analysis
Jul 2009
Overlay routing, which is a routing mechanism that works at the application level, selects a route for overlay network traffic based on user-perceived metrics, such as end-to-end latency and...
Provided by Osaka University
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White Papers
A Model of Link Capacities in ISP's Router-Level Topology
Dec 2009
Modeling the Internet is vital for network researches. Recent measurement studies on the Internet topology show that the degree distribution obeys the power-law distribution. However, only the...
Provided by Osaka University
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White Papers
Competition, Market Coverage, and Quality Choice in Interconnected Platforms
Jun 2009
The authors study duopoly competition between two interconnected Internet Service Providers (ISP) that compete in quality and prices for both Content Providers (CP) and consumers. They develop a...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Detecting Traffic Differentiation in Backbone ISPs With NetPolice
Nov 2009
Traffic differentiations are known to be found at the edge of the Internet in broadband ISPs and wireless carriers. The ability to detect traffic differentiations is essential for customers to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Effective Diagnosis of Routing Disruptions From End Systems
Feb 2008
Internet routing events are known to introduce severe disruption to applications. So far effective diagnosis of routing events has relied on proprietary ISP data feeds, resulting in limited...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
Ascertaining the Reality of Network Neutrality Violation in Backbone ISPs
Jan 2011
On the Internet today, a growing number of QoS sensitive network applications exist, such as VoIP, imposing more stringent requirements on ISPs besides the basic reachability assurance. Thus, the...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
On the Inadequacy of Link Connectivity Monitoring
Jul 2008
Internet backbone networks are constantly evolving along several dimensions such as technology, protocols, and features. The rapid rate of this evolution often places a tremendous amount of burden...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Improving User and ISP Experience Through ISP-Aided P2P Locality
Jul 2008
Despite recent improvements, P2P systems are still plagued by fundamental issues such as overlay/underlay topological and routing mismatch, which affects their performance and causes traffic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Multi-Agent System for Automation of B2C Processes in the Future Internet
Jul 2008
The concept of New Generation Network (NGN) will define roles and relationships in the future Internet. The fierce competition among players in the Information and CommunicaTion (ICT) industry...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
On the Rise and Fall of ISPs
Jul 2009
The Internet topology has witnessed significant changes over the years with the rise and fall of several Internet Service Providers (ISP). In this paper, the authors propose a new economic model...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Can ISPs Be Profitable Without Violating "Network Neutrality"?
Aug 2008
At the core of the network neutrality debate the authors find that ISPs, in particular the last-mile Access Providers (APs), are trying to find new ways to be profitable, despite the fact that...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Evaluating Cooperative Web Caching Protocols for Emerging Network Technologies
Jan 2011
While bandwidth for previous IP backbone networks deployed by Internet Service Providers typically has been limited to 34 Mbps, current and future IP networks provide bandwidth ranging from 155...
Provided by University of Dortmund
-
Whitepapers
Measuring Resilience in Multi-Carrier Emergency and Critical Telecommunications Systems
Sep 2008
The ability to provide critical communications, particularly during disasters, is essential for National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP). The authors present a quantitative study of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
White Papers
Should Users Be Entitled to Run the Applications of Their Choice on Wireless Networks?
Nov 2010
The authors examine whether wireless ISPs should be able to legally limit the applications used on wireless devices. The analysis is based on wireless network architecture and communications law....
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
FIRE: FInding Rogue nEtworks
Jun 2010
For many years, online criminals have been able to conduct their illicit activities by masquerading behind disreputable Internet Service Providers (ISPs). For example, organizations such as the...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
From Multiple Decompositions to TRUMP: Traffic Management Using Multipath Protocol
Apr 2008
Traffic management is the adaptation of source rates and routing to efficiently utilize network resources. Traffic management today includes congestion control, routing and traffic engineering. In...
Provided by Princeton University
-
White Papers
Cooperative Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering
Aug 2008
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
-
White Papers
To Change Traffic Engineering, Change the Traffic Matrix
Nov 2010
Traditional traffic engineering adapts the routing of traffic within the network to maximize performance. The authors propose a new approach to traffic engineering that also adaptively changes...
Provided by Princeton University
-
White Papers
Optimizing Cost and Performance in Online Service Provider Networks
Mar 2010
The authors present a method to jointly optimize the cost and the performance of delivering traffic from an Online Service Provider (OSP) network to its users. The method, called Entact, is based...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Performance Analysis and Special Issues of Broadband Strategies in the Computer Communication
Nov 2009
Broadband communications consists of the technologies and equipment required to deliver packet based digital voice, video, and data services to end users. Broadband affords end users high-speed,...
Provided by Anna University
-
White Papers
Morpheus: Enabling Flexible Interdomain Routing Policies
Oct 2007
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
-
White Papers
Collaborative Detection of DDoS Attacks Over Multiple Network Domains
Dec 2007
This paper presents a new distributed approach to detecting DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services) flooding attacks at the traffic-flow level. The new defense system is suitable for efficient...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
On the Efficiency of Collaborative Caching in ISP-Aware P2P Networks
Jan 2011
Collaborative ISP caching has been advocated to reduce the otherwise significant amount of costly inter-ISP traffic generated by Peer-To-Peer (P2P) applications. The fundamental design criteria...
Provided by University of Toronto
-
White Papers
Deep Diving Into BitTorrent Locality
Feb 2011
A substantial amount of work has recently gone into localizing BitTorrent traffic within an ISP in order to avoid excessive and often times unnecessary transit costs. Several architectures and...
Provided by University Carlos III of Madrid
-
White Papers
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users
Dec 2009
An accurate Internet topology graph is important in many areas of networking, from deciding ISP business relationships to diagnosing network anomalies. Most Internet mapping efforts have derived...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
TopBT: A Topology-Aware and Infrastructure-Independent BitTorrent Client
Mar 2010
BitTorrent (BT) has carried out a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet traffic. While several designs have been recently proposed and implemented to improve the resource...
Provided by George Mason University
-
White Papers
End-to-End Detection of ISP Traffic Shaping Using Active and Passive Methods
Sep 2010
The authors present end-to-end measurement methods for the detection of traffic shaping. Traffic shaping is typically implemented using token buckets, allowing a maximum burst of traffic to be...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
DiffProbe: Detecting ISP Service Discrimination
Jan 2010
The authors propose an active probing method, called Differential Probing or DiffProbe, to detect whether an access ISP is deploying forwarding mechanisms such as priority scheduling, variations...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
A Value-Based Framework for Internet Peering Agreements
Jun 2010
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use complex peering policies, stipulating various rules for peering with other networks. Peering strategy is often considered a "Black art" rather than science,...
Provided by Georgia Tech
-
White Papers
Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation
Mar 2010
A confluence of technical, business, and political interests has made "Network neutrality" a hot button issue. The debate revolves around whether and to what extent Internet Service Providers...
Provided by Microsoft Research
-
White Papers
Group Key Management Protocols: A Novel Taxonomy
Dec 2010
The phenomenal growth of the Internet in the last few years and the increase of bandwidth in today's networks have provided both inspiration and motivation for the development of new services,...
Provided by Université de Technologie de Compiègne
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Communities of Interest for Internet Traffic Prioritization
Apr 2009
Communities Of Interest (COI) have been studied in the past to classify traffic within an enterprise network, and to mitigate Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The authors investigate the use of...
Provided by Indiana University
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Reducing Cross-ISP Traffic of P2P Systems: The End or the Beginning of P2P Traffic Control
Dec 2009
As Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems are widely deployed in the Internet, P2P traffic control becomes a challenge for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and P2P system vendors. Some recent works consider...
Provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Understanding and Modeling the Internet Topology: Economics and Evolution Perspective
Feb 2010
In this paper, the authors seek to understand the intrinsic reasons for the well-known phenomenon of heavy-tailed degree in the Internet AS graph and argue that in contrast to traditional models...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Detecting Network Neutrality Violations With Causal Inference
Dec 2009
The authors present NANO, a system that detects when ISPs apply policies that discriminate against specific classes of applications, users, or destinations. Existing systems for detecting...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Cooperative Caching: The Case for P2P Traffic
May 2009
This paper analyzes the potential of cooperative proxy caching for Peer-To-Peer (P2P) traffic as a means to ease the burden imposed by P2P traffic on Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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ISP-Friendly Peer Matching Algorithms
Aug 2008
In Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems, a receiving peer needs to be matched with multiple sending peers, because peers have limited capacity and reliability. The authors study the following peer-matching...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Traffic Modeling and Proportional Partial Caching for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Dec 2008
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing systems generate a major portion of the Internet traffic, and this portion is expected to increase in the future. The authors explore the potential of deploying...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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On the Benefits of Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic
Jul 2010
This paper analyzes the potential of cooperative proxy caching for Peer-To-Peer (P2P) traffic as a means to ease the burden imposed by P2P traffic on Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Analysis of Open Environment Sign-In Schemes-Privacy Enhanced & Trustworthy Approach
May 2011
The third party based authentications possess users' privacy concerns in an open environment such as links and traces user identities across various services. The cryptographic schemes for...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Wresting Control From BGP: Scalable Fine-Grained Route Control
Jan 2011
Today's Internet users and applications are placing increased demands on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver fine-grained, flexible route control. To assist network operators in...
Provided by UC Regents
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A2C: Anti-Attack Counters for Traffic Measurement
Mar 2010
Flow-level sampling methods have been widely studied and extensively employed in network traffic measurement systems. Current approaches mainly focus on improving the performance under normal...
Provided by Dublin City University
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