Having gained momentum from its promise of centralized control over distributed network
architectures at bargain costs, software-defined Networking (SDN) is an ever-increasing …

BGP severely constrains how networks can deliver traffic over the Internet. Today's networks
can only forward traffic based on the destination IP prefix, by selecting among routes offered …

Business relationships between ASes in the Internet are typically confidential, yet
knowledge of them is essential to understand many aspects of Internet structure …

Large content providers build points of presence around the world, each connected to tens
or hundreds of networks. Ideally, this connectivity lets providers better serve users, but …

Capturing an accurate view of the Internet topology is of great interest to the networking
research community as it has many uses ranging from the design and evaluation of new …

The advent of virtualisation and the increasing demand for outsourced, elastic compute
charged on a pay-as-you-use basis has stimulated the development of large-scale Cloud …

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 …

The importance of IXPs to interconnect different networks and exchange traffic locally has
been well studied over the last few years. However, far less is known about the role IXPs …

While the Internet is ubiquitous in most parts of the world today, the dominant network
access technology is gradually shifting from wired to wireless connections. Notably, the ever …

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