Publications related to Toward Internet Performance Transparency

Learning a QoE Metric from Social Media and Gaming Footage

Aikaterini Argyraki, Catalina Paz Alvarez Inostroza

Defining a universal metric for Quality of Experience (QoE) is notoriously hard due to the complex relationship between low-level performance metrics and user satisfaction. The most common metric, the Mean Opinion Score (MOS), has well-known biases and inc ...

2023

DChannel: Accelerating Mobile ApplicationsWith Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels

Haitham Al Hassanieh

Interactive mobile applications like web browsing and gaming are known to benefit significantly from low latency networking, as applications communicate with cloud servers and other users' devices. Emerging mobile channel standards have not met these needs ...

USENIX ASSOC2023

Two-layer adaptive signal control framework for large-scale networks combining efficient Max-Pressure and Perimeter Control

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

This work investigates the benefits of a two-layer adaptive signal control framework combining multi-region perimeter control (PC) with distributed Max Pressure (MP) control in selected network intersections. Motivated by MP’s questionable performance in o ...

2022

Moby: A Blackout-Resistant Anonymity Network for Mobile Devices

Antoine Rault, Bryan Alexander Ford, Amogh Pradeep, Hira Javaid

Internet blackouts are challenging environments for anonymity and censorship resistance. Existing popular anonymity networks (e.g., Freenet, I2P, Tor) rely on Internet connectivity to function, making them impracticable during such blackouts. In such a set ...

2022

Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

Emerging in-car communication technologies continually offer new communication capabilities between vehicles and infrastructure that, together with more accurate positioning systems, can be used to improve the use of current infrastructure. The aim of this ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Building Evolvable Networks : Flexible and Predictable Packet Processing

Mihai Dobrescu

Software packet-processing platforms- - network devices running on general-purpose servers-- are emerging as a compelling alternative to the traditional high-end switches and routers running on specialized hardware. Their promise is to enable the fast dep ...

EPFL2015

Toward Predictable Performance in Software Packet-Processing Platforms

Aikaterini Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu

To become a credible alternative to specialized hardware, general-purpose networking needs to offer not only flexibility, but also predictable performance. Recent projects have demonstrated that general-purpose multicore hardware is capable of high-perform ...

2012

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

Software Framework for Integrated Modelling and Dimensioning of Backbone Optical Networks

Sébastien Rumley

Modelling, dimensioning and performance analysis of optical backbone networks is the main concern of this thesis. Modelling consists in representing a network under a abstract form, simpler and easier to analyse, the model. Dimensioning is achieved when ne ...

EPFL2011

Scalable Network-layer Defense Against Internet Bandwidth-Flooding Attacks

Aikaterini Argyraki

In a bandwidth-flooding attack, compromised sources send high-volume traffic to the target with the purpose of causing congestion in its tail circuit and disrupting its legitimate communications. In this paper, we present Active Internet Traffic Filtering ...

2009

Cooperative video streaming with dynamic compression at the terminal nodes

Tom Larsen

Media content distribution constitutes a growing share of the services on the Internet. In recent years methods for cooperative media distribution has been a research area with high activity. Concurrently wireless internet connections have emerged. Wireles ...

IEEE Computer Society2008

Sharing of probabilistically correlated data in peer-to-peer networks

Roman Schmidt

The impact of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks on the Internet landscape is undisputed. It has led to a series of new applications, e.g., as part of the so-called Web 2.0. The shift from the classical client-server based paradigm of the Internet, with a clear d ...

EPFL2008

Authentication-free fault-tolerant peer-to-peer service provisioning

Zoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer, Wojciech Galuba

The correct functioning of a peer-to-peer network relies on cooperative behavior of peers as service providers. Current approaches to detection and deterrence of non-cooperative behavior, such as reputation systems, rely on (1) global sharing of observatio ...

Springer2007

Nash Equilibria of Packet Forwarding Strategies in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Levente Buttyan, Mark Felegyhazi

In self-organizing ad hoc networks, all the networking functions rely on the contribution of the participants. As a basic example, nodes have to forward packets for each other in order to enable multi-hop communication. In recent years, incentive mechanism ...

2006