The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...
Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An endpoint injects a packet with a destination address and the netwo...
Paolo Costa, Thomas Zahn, Antony I. T. Rowstron, G...
TCP Throughput Collapse, also known as Incast, is a pathological behavior of TCP that results in gross under-utilization of link capacity in certain many-to-one communication patt...
Yanpei Chen, Rean Griffith, Junda Liu, Randy H. Ka...
The routing architecture of the original 4.4BSD [3] kernel has been deployed successfully without major design modification for over 15 years. In the unified routing architectur...
Active probe-based measurements are the foundation for understanding important network path properties such as SLA compliance and available bandwidth. Well-known challenges in act...
The demand for wireless bandwidth in indoor environments such as homes and offices continues to increase rapidly. Although wireless technologies such as MIMO can reach link throug...
Xi Liu, Anmol Sheth, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina...
We present the Measurement Manager Protocol (MGRP), an in-kernel service that schedules and transmits probes on behalf of active measurement tools. Unlike prior measurement servic...
Today’s Internet is open and anonymous. While it permits free traffic from any host, attackers that generate malicious traffic cannot typically be held accountable. In this pa...
New protocols for the data link and network layer are being proposed to address limitations of current protocols in terms of scalability, security, and manageability. High-speed r...
Lorenzo De Carli, Yi Pan, Amit Kumar, Cristian Est...