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Internet connection is essential for daily life, however not all areas are covered by Internet access due to historical reasons. For example, with 3.7 million daily passengers, London underground system has no WiFi or cellular signal provided during travelling due to legacy reasons. Deploy new access infrastructure need to consider the integrating problem with the current environment, also bring a...
Using AS-level Internet topology maps to determine accurate AS-level paths is essential for network diagnosis, performance optimization, reliability improvement, resiliency enforcement and topology-aware application development. One significant drawback that we have observed in many studies is simplifying the AS-level topology map of the Internet to an undirected graph, and then using the hop distance...
One of the main goals of multipath TCP (MPTCP) is to achieve higher throughput than regular TCP by utilizing multiple paths simultaneously. When these paths share a common bottleneck, MPTCP tries not to be more aggressive than a regular TCP flow. This is achieved by MPTCP's coupled congestion control mechanism that couples the increase factor of MPTCP's subflows in congestion avoidance. However, slow-start...
Internet connectivity in most rural African areas has been viewed as a major challenge due to lack of reliable power, scarcity of network expertise and expensive installation of network equipment. With the rapid development of wireless technologies, Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has emerged as a promising networking infrastructure, bridging the digital divide between the urban and rural areas. However,...
Facing computational complexity when modeling network reliability by means of parametric models and corresponding statistical methods, in the present study, we apply nonparametric statistical methods, such as the Kaplan-Meier survival probability estimator and the mean cumulative function, to characterize the dynamic properties (in particular, the stability properties) of the Internet routing paths...
The Internet is playing an increasingly crucial role in both personal and business activities. Handling link failures is an important task in designing routing protocols. To enhance the network availability without incurring significant extra overhead, we propose a novel link protection algorithm, Hybrid Link Protection Scheme (HLP) to achieve failure resilient routing.
The Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) protocol is a recently standardized protocol that aims to offer a scavenger service (i.e. the goal is to exploit the remaining and unused capacity of a link). LEDBAT is a delay-based protocol mainly defined by two parameters: a target queuing delay and a gain. The RFC 6817 provides guidelines to configure both parameters that strongly impact on the...
To study Internet's routing behavior on the granularity of Autonomous Systems (ASes), one needs to understand inter-domain routing policy. Routing policy changes over time, and may cause route oscillation, network congestion, and other problems. However, there are few works on routing policy changes and their impact on BGP's routing behaviors. In this paper, we model inter-domain routing policy as...
Multi-path routing is a promising technique to increase the Internet's reliability and to give users greater control over the service they receive. Currently the interdomain routing protocol limits each router to using a single route for same destination, which may not satisfy the diverse requirements of end users. In this paper, in order to support the effective and efficient multi-path service(MPS),...
The increasing growth of the global Internet making the shortcomings of its unstructured topology and distributed routing algorithm are exposed more rapidly. To design a controllable, scalable and manageable backbone network with a simple, efficient architecture is very imperative. Among many topologies, Tree topology which has a natural hierarchical structure and explicit end-to-end transmission...
The demand for delivery services for large-sized content such as video has increased dramatically, and the use of cloud computing services in which users can use IT services via networks has also increased. To provide these services with high quality and high reliability, ISPs need to carefully design network topology and the positions of data centers. However, network topology and data center location...
Today's Internet is facing many problems which did not take into account in its initial design, such as routing scalability, mobility and security. No matter evolutional or revolutionary solutions that are proposed in recent years, a recognized promising direction is to separate customer network from core network and separate identification from location. In this paper, we sketch out an architecture...
While transparent optical networks become more and more popular as the basis of the next generation Internet (NGI) infrastructure, such networks raise many security issues, which do not exist in traditional optoelectronic networks. The existing protection schemes which rely heavily on fault detection with the use of network monitoring performed by optoelectronic conversion at the switching nodes,...
As society's dependence on network technology increases, the need for resilience and survivability in these services becomes increasingly apparent. Since the user experience is ultimately determined by the dependability of the end-to-end service, we address this issue at the transport layer. In this paper we introduce a resilient multipath selection algorithm, which obtains multiple end-to-end paths...
We introduce a ??bulk data transfer?? (BDT) mechanism across multi-autonomous system (AS). The mechanism performance is limited by the positions of source or replica servers and by the inter/intra AS routing strategies. Therefore, a new mechanism is proposed to enable the source peer to create several virtual replica servers to transfer the data to the destination peer together. The mechanism works...
This paper proposes a Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications (ROMCA); a novel operator-independent overlay architecture providing a resilient and reliable service across wide-area networks. One feature of ROMCA is that its overlay topology can be altered according to the underlying network conditions. Moreover, resilience is achieved by combining centralized topology construction control...
The impact of the control plane architecture on reliability of the GMPLS network is studied. To improve this reliability, a method based on the graph-theoretical dominating set problem is proposed. Several algorithms to select dominating nodes are presented and evaluated for four different network topologies by using simulation methods. It is shown that the service recovery time can be shortened by...
Overlay networks have emerged as a means to enhance end-to-end application performance and availability. Network topology plays an important role in utilizing resources in peer-to-peer systems. Epidemic algorithms are potentially effective solutions for disseminating information in large scale and dynamic systems. P2P networks are popular for their dynamicity, but they are easy to deploy, robust and...
As more and more mission critical services emerge on the Internet, there is a growing demand for the Internet to provide stringent service availability and reliability. More and more domains adopt multi-homed connection to expect increasing reliability. But the de facto inter-domain protocol - BGP spends a long period to converge to another stable state when one of the links of multi-homed domain...
Maintaining connectivity is a key responsibility of any routing system, but successfully carrying it out can be challenging, especially for inter-domain paths. Many measurements indicate the links failures are fairly common in the Internet. During the period of failures, some destination would be unreachable and the corresponding services unavailable. Shrinking the convergence time window to improve...
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