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Network monitors and contracting systems: competition and innovation

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SIGCOMM '06: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications

August 2006

Pages 183 - 194

https://doi.org/10.1145/1159913.1159935

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Today's Internet industry suffers from several well-known pathologies, but none is as destructive in the long term as its resistance to evolution. Rather than introducing new services, ISPs are presently moving towards greater commoditization. It is apparent that the network's primitive system of contracts does not align incentives properly. In this study, we identify the network's lack of accountability as a fundamental obstacle to correcting this problem: Employing an economic model, we argue that optimal routes and innovation are impossible unless new monitoring capability is introduced and incorporated with the contracting system. Furthermore, we derive the minimum requirements a monitoring system must meet to support first-best routing and innovation characteristics. Our work does not constitute a new protocol; rather, we provide practical and specific guidance for the design of monitoring systems, as well as a theoretical framework to explore the factors that influence innovation.

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SIGCOMM '06: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications

September 2006

458 pages

ISBN:1595933085

DOI:10.1145/1159913

General Chair:
Luigi Rizzo
Università di Pisa, Italy
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Program Chairs:
Tom Anderson
University of Washington, USA
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Nick McKeown
Stanford University, USA

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 36, Issue 4
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
October 2006
445 pages
ISSN:0146-4833
DOI:10.1145/1151659
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