Implementation and preliminary evaluation of an ISP-driven informed path selection

ABSTRACT

During the past ten years, we have seen the emergence of a set of applications requiring more and more quality of service (QoS). For instance, IPTV needs large bandwidth and delays as lows as possible. Further, while previously a content was located in a single place, it is, nowadays, frequent that the content is replicated among a set of servers located anywhere on five continents or even among users themselves. Perfect examples of this are peer-to-peer (P2P) applications and FTP mirrors. In addition, multihoming, i.e., the ability of having different connections to Internet potentially through different providers, is becoming more and more popular [1, 2]. Finally, network level protocols such as SHIM6 or LISP must often choose the best path among a list of highly disparate paths according to traffic engineering or policies considerations (see discussions on IETF mailing lists).

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