Reducing web latency

FlachTobias,; DukkipatiNandita,; TerzisAndreas,; RaghavanBarath,; CardwellNeal,; ChengYuchung,; JainAnkur,; HaoShuai,; Katz-BassettEthan,; GovindanRamesh,

doi:10.1145/2534169.2486014

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“…1), their knowledge of the demand of content and distribution flexibilities is usually very limited (upper layer in Fig. 1); and vice versa for the hyper-giant [21], [45], [46]. Several recent studies presented promising approaches to improve information sharing and cooperation [16], [21], [47]- [50].…”

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On the Benefits of Joint Optimization of Reconfigurable CDN-ISP Infrastructure

Zerwas

Poese²,

Schmid

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manage.

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ISP networks have become a critical infrastructure in our society. Traffic in these networks is growing and is increasingly dominated by a small number of large CDNs connecting at multiple locations. Simultaneously, the networks are becoming more flexible, in terms of routing, CDN user mapping, and also regarding the IP topology: emerging optical technologies allow to flexibly reconfigure the network.This paper studies the potential gains of these reconfiguration flexibilities. The idea is to make CDN-ISP infrastructure demandaware, that is, to re-optimize it towards the changing end-user demands over time. We present an optimization framework and conduct an extensive evaluation using data from a large European ISP. We find that such a reconfigurable infrastructure has indeed a high potential: by leveraging spatial and diurnal traffic patterns, the efficiency of ISP networks and CDNs is improved significantly. Specifically, the required backbone capacity is reduced by 15% while reducing path lengths by 30%, on average and during the critical peak hour. Moreover, such infrastructures can leverage re-optimizations during specific events, like the COVID-19 pandemic, and under link failures. We optimistically assume a cooperative environment of ISPs and CDNs, and we conclude by discussing trends that foster the identified benefits in practice.

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Section: B Business-related Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Benefits of Joint Optimization of Reconfigurable CDN-ISP Infrastructure

Zerwas

Poese²,

Schmid

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manage.

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“…Currently, network bandwidth-intense transmissions from the display-advertisement industry are unavoidable, profitable, and scalable, but most importantly, they progressively block the head of the transmission line: As more visual adverts are embedded on websites, network bandwidth use and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection consumption significantly increases, resulting in progressive latency (Chesire, 1996;Flach et al, 2013;Peacock, 2018). Another well-known problem is that the TCP is known to introduce extra latency (Kharat & Kulkarni, 2019).…”

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Politics, Public Goods, and Corporate Nudging in the HTTP/2 Standardization Process

Peacock

2020

Sage Open

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The goal is to map out some policy problems attached to using a club good approach instead of a public good approach to manage our internet protocols, specifically the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). Behavioral and information economics theory are used to evaluate the standardization process of our current generation HTTP/2 (2.0). The HTTP update under scrutiny is a recently released HTTP/2 version based on Google’s SPDY, which introduces several company-specific and best practice applications, side by side. A content analysis of email discussions extracted from a publicly accessible IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) email server shows how the club good approach of the working group leads to an underperformance in the outcomes of the standardization process. An important conclusion is that in some areas of the IETF, standardization activities may need to include public consultations, crowdsourced volunteers, or an official call for public participation to increase public oversight and more democratically manage our intangible public goods.

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DCUDP: scalable data transfer for high‐speed long‐distance networks

Zhang

2016

Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARYThe emergence of high-speed long-distance networks has promoted the development of various new types of applications that are required to transfer bulk data efficiently. Because of the conservative additive increase and multiplicative decrease strategy, traditional TCP has a severe problem in utilizing bandwidth, which provides an opening for new classes of UDP-based protocols. This paper proposes a high-speed bulk data transfer protocol, Double Cubic UDP (henceforth DCUDP), which is built on top of UDP with rate control and reliability control. DCUDP improves the scalability of the protocol over high bandwidth-delay product networks through cubic-shaped rate control functions and employs a randomized algorithm to alleviate the impacts of continuous loss and loss synchronization. In addition, DCUDP introduces a novel high-precision user-space timer system to facilitate the data transfer. The experimental results demonstrate that DCUDP performs well in terms of bandwidth utilization, CPU utilization, intra-protocol fairness and round-trip time fairness, and exhibits favorable friendliness to standard TCP and high-speed TCP variants.

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Reducing web latency

Cited by 44 publications

References 25 publications

On the Benefits of Joint Optimization of Reconfigurable CDN-ISP Infrastructure

On the Benefits of Joint Optimization of Reconfigurable CDN-ISP Infrastructure

Politics, Public Goods, and Corporate Nudging in the HTTP/2 Standardization Process

DCUDP: scalable data transfer for high‐speed long‐distance networks

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