An empirical study on the interactions between ALTO-assisted P2P overlays and ISP networks

Abstract

The recently proposed Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) framework has opened up a new dimension for Internet traffic management that is complementary to the traditional application-agnostic traffic engineering (AATE) solutions currently employed by ISPs. In this paper, we investigate how ALTO-assisted Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic management functions interact with the underlying AATE operations, given that there may exist different application-layer policies in the P2P overlay. By considering specific P2P peer selection behaviors on top of a traffic-engineered ISP network, we conduct a performance analysis on how the application and network-layer respective performance is influenced by different policies at the P2P side. Our empirical study offers significant insight for the future design and analysis of cross-layer network engineering approaches that involve multiple autonomous optimization entities with both consistent and non-consistent policies.

Original document

The different versions of the original document can be found in:

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2011.6115540

• http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/107401

• http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/107401/2/LCN_V3%20final%20accepted.pdf

• http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/107401,

http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.ieee-000006115540,

https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/lcn/lcn2011.html#WangWHP11,

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/107401/2/LCN_V3%20final%20accepted.pdf,

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1435370,

https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2060638280

• http://xplorestaging.ieee.org/ielx5/6105664/6114410/06115540.pdf?arnumber=6115540,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lcn.2011.6115540