Enabling Multi-Hop ISP-Hypergiant Collaboration
Cristian Munteanu (Max Planck Institut für Informatik)
Oliver Gasser (Max Planck Institut für Informatik)
Igmar Poese (Max Planck)
G. Smaragdakis (TU Delft - Cyber Security)
Anja Feldmann (Max Planck Institut für Informatik)
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Abstract
Today, there is an increasing number of peering agreements between Hypergiants and networks that benefit millions of end-user. However, the majority of Autonomous Systems do not currently enjoy the benefit of interconnecting directly with Hypergiants to optimally select the path for delivering Hypergiant traffic to their users. In this paper, we develop and evaluate an architecture that can help this long tail of networks. With our proposed architecture, a network establishes an out-of-band communication channel with Hypergiants that can be two or more AS hops away and, optionally, with the transit provider. This channel enables the exchange of network information to better assign requests of end-users to appropriate Hypergiant servers. Our analysis using operational data shows that our architecture can optimize, on average, 15% of Hypergiants’ traffic and 11% of the overall traffic of networks that do not interconnect with Hypergiants. The gains are even higher during peak hours when available capacity can be scarce, up to 46% for some Hypergiants.
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