The current Internet architecture was founded upon a host-centric communication model,
which was appropriate for co** with the needs of the early Internet users. Internet usage …

The border gateway protocol (BGP) is the Internet's default inter-domain routing protocol that
manages connectivity among autonomous systems (ASes). Over the past two decades many …

In this paper, we examine changes in Internet inter-domain traffic demands and
interconnection policies. We analyze more than 200 Exabytes of commercial Internet traffic …

The largest IXPs carry on a daily basis traffic volumes in the petabyte range, similar to what
some of the largest global ISPs reportedly handle. This little-known fact is due to a few …

The Tier-1 ISPs have been considered the Internet's backbone since the dawn of the
modern Internet 30 years ago, as they guarantee global reachability. However, their …

There is significant interest in the technical and policy communities regarding the extent,
scope, and consumer harm of persistent interdomain congestion. We provide empirical …

The Internet suffers from well-known performance, reliability, and security problems.
However, proposed improvements have seen little adoption due to the difficulties of Internet …

Internet outages are inevitable, frequent, opaque, and expensive. To make things worse,
they are poorly understood, while a deep understanding of them is essential for …

Formally, the Internet inter-domain routing system is a collection of networks, their policies,
peering relationships and organizational affiliations, and the addresses they advertize. It …

Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) are generally considered to be the successors of the four
Network Access Points (NAPs) that were mandated as part of the decommissioning of the …