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About what is the smallest size we can compress an IP Forwarding Information Base (FIB) down to, while still guaranteeing fast lookup? Is there some notion of FIB entropy that could serve as a compressibility metric? As an initial step in answering ...

Current middlebox (MB) management mechanisms are clumsy and unsuitable for taking full advantage of new MB deployment models and diverse MB functionality. Instead, we advocate for mechanisms that help exercise unified control over the key factors ...

Low latency is critical for interactive networked applications. But while we know how to scale systems to increase capacity, reducing latency --- especially the tail of the latency distribution --- can be much more difficult.

We argue that the use of ...

We consider the intra-AS route dissemination problem from first principles, and illustrate that when known route dissemination techniques propagate even a single external routing change, they can cause transient anomalies. These anomalies are not ...

Rateless error correction codes hold great potential for increasing the capacity of practical wireless networks by obviating the need for transmitters to estimate the highest reliable rate of an unpredictable wireless channel and send information at ...

Cluster computing applications -- frameworks like MapReduce and user-facing applications like search platforms -- have application-level requirements and higher-level abstractions to express them. However, there exists no networking abstraction that can ...

Interdomain routing involves coordination among mutually distrustful parties, leading to the requirements that BGP provide policy autonomy, flexibility, and privacy. BGP provides these properties via the distributed execution of policy-based decisions ...

In current networks, a domain can effectively run a network architecture only if it is explicitly supported by the network infrastructure. This coupling between architecture and infrastructure means that any significant architectural change involves ...

The assumption of rationality is fundamental to large part of network economics literature. In this paper, we use a simple definition of rationality based on economic self-interest and test for such behavior using real data on how users purchase and ...

Inter-domain routing is based on a fully decentralized model, where multiple Autonomous Systems (AS) interact via the BGP protocol. Although BGP is the "glue" of the Internet, it faces a lot of problems regarding its fully distributed nature, policy ...

TCP is designed to operate in a wide range of networks. Without any knowledge of the underlying network and traffic characteristics, TCP is doomed to continuously increase and decrease its congestion window size to embrace changes in network or traffic. ...

The proliferation of smartphones and tablet devices is changing the landscape of user connectivity and data access from predominantly static users to a mix of static and mobile users. While significant advances have been made in wireless transmission ...

Current security systems typically rely on the adversary's computational limitations (e.g., the fact that it cannot invert a hash function or perform large-integer factorization). Wireless networks offer the opportunity for a different, complementary ...

Price discrimination, setting the price of a given product for each customer individually according to his valuation for it, can benefit from extensive information collected online on the customers and thus contribute to the profitability of e-commerce ...

Access link can often be the bottleneck for application performance. In this paper, we propose to augment wired connections using cellular ones, that we term "3G onloading (3GOL)". 3GOL utilizes available mobile devices and already-paid-for data volumes ...

Networked systems have benefited from unprecedented growth in hardware capabilities, but, as we move closer to the end of the Moore's law era, future networked systems are likely to be more constrained by hardware capabilities than they have been in the ...

An imminent challenge that content providers, CDNs, third-party analytics and optimization services, and video player designers in the Internet video ecosystem face is the lack of a single "gold standard" to evaluate different competing solutions. ...

Data breaches, e.g. malware, network intrusions, or physical theft, that lead to the compromise of users' personal data, happen often. The impacted companies lose reputation and have to spend millions of dollars providing affected users with identity ...

Live virtual machine (VM) migration can move applications from one location to another without a disruption in service. However, applications often consist of multiple VMs and rely on the state of the underlying network for basic reachability, access ...

Recently, there have been proposals for constructing hybrid data center networks combining electronic packet switching with either wireless or optical circuit switching, which are ideally suited for supporting bulk traffic. Previous work has relied on a ...

Free web services often face growing pains. In the current client-server access model, the cost of providing a service increases with its popularity. This leads organizations that want to provide services free-of-charge to rely to donations, ...

This paper presents the design of a novel architecture called CARE (Content-Aware Redundancy Elimination) that enables maximizing the informational value that challenged networks offer their users. We focus on emerging applications for situational ...

We present, pFabric, a minimalistic datacenter fabric design that provides near-optimal performance in terms of completion time for high-priority flows and overall network utilization. pFabric's design eliminates nearly all buffering on switches (...