Publications related to Net neutrality

Localizing Traffic Differentiation

Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Muhammad Abdullah, Aikaterini Argyraki, Zeinab Shmeis

Network neutrality is important for users, content providers, policymakers, and regulators interested in understanding how network providers differentiate performance. When determining whether a network differentiates against certain traffic, it is importa ...

2023

Caching and Neutrality

Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Muhammad Abdullah, Aikaterini Argyraki

We are used to defining network neutrality as absence of traffic differentiation, like policing or shaping. These mechanisms, however, are often not what determines end-users’ quality of experience (QoE). Most content today is accessed through edge caches, ...

ACM Association for Computing Machinery2023

First Demonstration of Erbium -Doped Waveguide Amplifier Enabled Multi-Tb/s (16x1.6T) Coherent Transmission

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Xi Chen, Yang Liu

We demonstrate the first EDWA-enabled Terabit-class coherent optical communication with 1.6-Tb/s net bit rate per channel and 16 -channel WDM transmission over 81 -km fiber, proving the potential of such on-chip amplification for future coherent applicatio ...

IEEE2023

Tracing in 2D to reduce the annotation effort for 3D deep delineation of linear structures

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Agata Justyna Mosinska, Mateusz Kozinski

The difficulty of obtaining annotations to build training databases still slows down the adoption of recent deep learning approaches for biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we show that we can train a Deep Net to perform 3D volumetric delineation giv ...

2020

The Optimal Memory-Rate Trade-Off for the Non-Uniform Centralized Caching Problem With Two Files Under Uncoded Placement

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Pierre Victor Xavier Quinton, Saeid Sahraei

A new scheme for the problem of centralized coded caching with non-uniform demands is proposed. The distinguishing feature of the proposed placement strategy is that it admits equal sub-packetization for all files while allowing the users to allocate more ...

2019

Context-based Quality of Experience in Immersive Multimedia

Anne-Flore Nicole Marie Perrin

Since 1895, when the Lumière brothers came out with the projected cinematograph, motion pictures and more generally multimedia contents have considerably improved and are still experiencing a very dynamic development. Advances involved improving various mo ...

EPFL2019

Network Neutrality Inference using Network Tomography

Ovidiu Sebastian Mara

Our work studies network neutrality, a property of communication networks which means that they treat all traffic the same, regardless of application, content provider or communication protocol. This is an important problem, because sometimes users suspect ...

EPFL2018

Traffic Receipts for Network Transparency

Pavlos Nikolopoulos

Today's Internet is not transparent: when packets get lost or delayed, there is typically no information about where the problem occurred, hence no information about who is responsible. This results in Internet service providers (ISPs) offering service lev ...

EPFL2018

A Domain-Adaptive Two-Stream U-Net for Electron Microscopy Image Segmentation

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Pablo Marquez Neila, Róger Bermúdez Chacón

Deep networks such as the U-Net are outstanding at segmenting biomedical images when enough training data is available, but only then. Here we introduce a Domain Adaptation approach that relies on two coupled U-Nets that either regularize or share correspo ...

2018

A Domain-Adaptive Two-Stream U-Net For Electron Microscopy Image Segmentation

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Pablo Marquez Neila

Deep networks such as the U-Net are outstanding at segmenting biomedical images when enough training data is available, but only then. Here we introduce a Domain Adaptation approach that relies on two coupled U-Nets that either regularize or share correspo ...

IEEE2018

Information-Theoretic Caching: The Multi-User Case

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Chien-Yi Wang

In this paper, we consider a cache aided network in which each user is assumed to have individual caches, while upon users’ requests, an update message is sent through a common link to all users. First, we formulate a general information theoretic setting ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...

ACM2017

A New Converse Bound for Coded Caching

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Chien-Yi Wang

An information-theoretic lower bound is developed for the caching system studied by Maddah-Ali and Niesen. By comparing the proposed lower bound with the decentralized coded caching scheme of Maddah-Ali and Niesen, the optimal memory--rate tradeoff is char ...

2016

Transparency Instead of Neutrality

Adrian Perrig, Aikaterini Argyraki, Christos Pappas

The technical community has so far defined network neutrality in terms of specific mechanisms, e.g., policing or shaping. We argue that these definitions are problematic: according to them, a non-neutral network may be preferable (for all users) to a neutr ...

2015

Network Neutrality Inference

Aikaterini Argyraki, Ovidiu Sebastian Mara, Zhiyong Zhang

When can we reason about the neutrality of a network based on external observations? We prove conditions under which it is possible to (a) detect neutrality violations and (b) localize them to specific links, based on external observations. Our insight is ...

2014

User-independent classification of 2D versus 3D multimedia experiences through EEG and physiological signals

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart, Martin Rerabek, Jong Seok Lee, Eleni Kroupi

3D image and video have become popular since they can enhance the Quality of Experience (QoE) by adding the depth dimension to the traditional 2D media. In order to design and optimize the human-centric 3D multimedia processing techniques, it is important ...

2014

Scalable Media Coding Enabling Content-Aware Networking

Daniele Renzi

Increasingly popular multimedia services are expected to play a dominant role in the future of the Internet. In this context, it is essential that content-aware networking (CAN) architectures explicitly address the efficient delivery and processing of mult ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Adaptive Multiview Video Streaming: Challenges and Opportunities

Delivering multiview video content over present packet networks poses multiple challenges. First, the best effort nature of the Internet exposes media packets to variable bandwidth, loss, and delay as they traverse the network. Second, the prediction depen ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Network Coding : Theoretical Designs Directed to Applications

Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

The demand for higher throughput and better efficiency are two important challenges for future communication networks. During the past decades, a lot of research studies have been devoted to investigating and proposing near optimal and efficient schemes an ...

EPFL2012

Bandwidth Adaptation in Streaming Overlays

Dejan Kostic, Nedeljko Vasic, Simon Schubert

A major challenge for real-time streaming overlays is to distribute high bit-rate streams with uninterrupted playback. Hosts usually have sufficient inbound bandwidth to support streaming, but due to the prevalence of asymmetric links in broadband networks ...

2010