It can be argued that, BGP, de-facto inter-domain routing protocol, provides fairly stable
routes. Path stability is a desired product of that limited level of deterministic performance of …

Due to the Internet's commercialized ISP structure, inter-domain routing is perceived as
more of a commercial service (and market decision) instead of an optimization problem …

Provisioning of rich routing building blocks to mobile ad hoc networking applications has
been of high interest. Several MANET applications need flexibility in describing paths their …

Multi-owner structure shaping inter-domain operations is arguably the most important factor
determining the end-to-end performance in the current Internet. Financial sustainability of …

The Internet's simple best-effort packet-switched architecture lies at the core of its
tremendous success and impact. Today, the Internet is firmly a commercial medium …

We consider the contract-switching paradigm for studying the inter-domain traffic
engineering problem. In the contract-switching paradigm, each ISP in the Internet is …

Congestion-dependent pricing is a form of traffic management that ensures the efficient
allocation of bandwidth between users and applications. As the unpredictability of …

Congestion-dependent pricing is a form of traffic management that would ensure the efficient
allocation of bandwidth between users and applications. As the unpredictability of …

Despite the huge success of the Internet in providing basic communication services, its
economic architecture needs to be upgraded so as to provide end-to-end guaranteed or …

Inter-domain routing has been long considered as an ongoing negotiation on end-to-end
paths between service providers. Such negotiations were often believed to be effective in …