Prior work on centralized Routing Control Platform (RCP) has shown many benefits in
flexible routing, enhanced security, and ISP connectivity management tasks. In this paper …

Software-defined network (SDN)/OpenFlow research and development have attracted the
attention of many researchers and companies. The key idea of an SDN is to split the network …

Albeit an important goal of caching is traffic reduction, a perhaps even more important
aspect follows from the above achievement: the reduction of internet service provider (ISP) …

To reduce the congestion due to the future bandwidth-hungry applications in domains such
as Health care, Internet of Things (IoT), etc., we study the benefit of introducing additional …

The evolution of the Internet has manifested itself in many ways: the traffic characteristics,
the interconnection topologies and the business relationships among the autonomous …

How costs are distributed among the participants is a key question in the management and
viability of shared resources. Although all cost-sharing mechanisms are subjective and thus …

The current framework of Internet interconnections, based on transit and settlement-free
peering relations, has systemic problems that often cause peering disputes. Repeated high …

As the demand for online video content drives up bandwidth costs for content providers
(CPs), there have been efforts to integrate cost-effective techniques to mitigate their …

Voice and data traffic growth over the last several years has become a major challenge for
cellular operators with a direct impact on revenues, infrastructure investments, and end-user …

This paper studies the settlement problem among Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who
interconnect with each other through Network Access Point (NAP). A cooperative game …