User-perceived latency is important for the quality of experience (QoE) of wide-area real-
time communications (RTC). This paper explores a futuristic yet important problem facing the …

The emergence and growth of a collection of large and global private networks operated by
big tech companies like Google, Facebook, or Amazon have thoroughly disrupted the …

Large-scale video conferencing services incur significant network cost while serving surging
global demands. Our work systematically explores the opportunity to offload a fraction of this …

The goal of this short document is to explain why recent developments in the Internet's
infrastructure are problematic. As context, we note that the Internet was originally designed …

Cloud computing is critical for today's information society. In this paper, we shed light on two
radically different cloud design philosophies: the DC-cloud built around massive data …

To mitigate IPv4 exhaustion, IPv6 provides expanded address space, and NAT allows a
single public IPv4 address to suffice for many devices assigned private IPv4 address space …

The main premise of this work is that since large cloud providers can and do manipulate
probe packets that traverse their privately owned and operated backbones, standard …

Achieving the EU's ambitious 2030 connectivity targets enshrined in the proposed Path to
the Digital Decade program will require significant additional investment, and most of that …

We revisit the long-standing problem of providing network QoS to applications, and propose
the concept of judicious QoS-combining the cheaper, best effort IP service with the cloud …

Enterprises are adopting multi-cloud strategies, es-tablishing overlays atop two or more
cloud providers (CP) backbones to connect resources and services, even across conti …