A highly accurate client-independent geolocation service stands to be an important goal for the Internet. Despite extensive research effort and significant advances in this area, has not yet been met. Motivated by fact that best results date are achieved utilizing additional 'hints' beyond inherently inaccurate delay-based measurements, we propose a novel method fundamentally escalates use of external information. In particular, many entities (e.g., businesses, universities, institutions)...

Anycast is a popular tool for deploying global, widely available systems, including DNS infrastructure and content delivery networks (CDNs). The optimization of these often focuses on the deployment management anycast sites. However, such approaches fail to consider one primary configurations large network: set that receive announcements at each site (i.e., an announcement configuration). Altering configurations, even without additional sites, can have profound impacts both selection...

Network operators and researchers frequently use Internet measurement platforms (IMPs), such as RIPE Atlas, RIS, or RouteViews for, e.g., monitoring network performance, detecting routing events, topology discovery, route optimization. To interpret the results of their measurements avoid pitfalls wrong generalizations, users must understand a platform's limitations. this end, paper studies an important limitation IMPs, bias, which exists due to non-uniform deployment vantage points....

Enabling communication between routers and endpoints has long been sought after as an approach to congestion control in the Internet. However, narrow-waist of TCP/IP complicated deployment such communication. In this paper, we present Kick-Ass <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> , a mechanism that enables explicit rate protocols be deployed within stack. The key idea is utilize packet lengths vehicle communicate fine-grained...

Large-scale cloud networks are constantly driven by the need for improved performance in communication between datacenters. Indeed, such back-office makes up a large fraction of traffic many environments. This often occurs frequently, carrying control messages, coordination and load balancing information, customer data. However, ensuring inter-datacenter is delivered efficiently requires optimizing connections over physical distances, which non-trivial. Worse still, subject to complex...

Currently, the attempt to choose "best" content replica server for a client is carried out solely by CDNs. While CDNs have decent view of load distribution and placement, they receive little input from clients themselves. We propose hybrid solution, subnet assimilation, where participates in selection process while still leaving final say CDN. Subnet assimilation allows declare their own "network location," different actual one, which turn drives CDN towards making better decisions. To...

FM radio, typically broadcast in the 87.5 to 108.0Mhz range, is widely available urban areas and beyond. Contrary GPS, it effectively penetrates buildings, contrary 3G/4G or TV, radio receivers are becoming freely mobile devices. Indeed, nearly every smart phone many other consumer electronics today have a built-in chip. In this paper, we demonstrate that ubiquitous in-the-air on-device availability presents unique opportunity address some of fundamental wireless networking problems....

Four major search engines, Google in particular, hold a unique position enabling the use of Internet, as they alone direct over 98% Internet users to content seek, using proprietary indices. While contribution these companies is undeniable, their design necessarily affected by economic interests, which may or not align with those users, raising concerns regarding effect on availability information around globe. multiple academic and commercial projects aimed distribute democratize Web...

Web tracking is a practice that has grown in scope and complexity as the Internet expanded. In particular, advertising networks have been continually advancing web order to gather most information on users. On other hand, users often reacted negatively schemes, expressing concern about their lack of control. We present Synthoid, system which returns control users, without need for tracker cooperation or broad adoption. Synthoid achieves this by actively fetching content selected set topics,...

User tracking has become ubiquitous practice on the Web, allowing services to recommend behaviorally targeted content users. In this article, we design Alibi, a system that utilizes such readily available personalized content, generated by recommendation engines in real time, as means tame Sybil attacks. particular, using ads and other tracker-generated recommendations implicit user “certificates,” Alibi is capable of creating meta-profiles allow for rapid inexpensive validation users’...

Web performance has long proved to be one of the most sought after and difficult achieve components for web. Since inception modern web infrastructure, situation been growing in complexity, adding remote hosts objects, providing everything from computation content distribution capability, targeted advertising. While many these provide improvements some users, complexity Internet often leaves other users suffering poor performance. We propose Oak, a system which addresses client on individual...

Network operators and researchers frequently use Internet measurement platforms (IMPs), such as RIPE Atlas, RIS, or RouteViews for, e.g., monitoring network performance, detecting routing events, topology discovery, route optimization. To interpret the results of their measurements avoid pitfalls wrong generalizations, users must understand a platform's limitations. this end, paper studies an important limitation IMPs, \textit{bias}, which exists due to non-uniform deployment vantage points....