Content Hypergiants deliver the vast majority of Internet traffic to end users. In recent years,
some have invested heavily in deploying services and servers inside end-user networks …

In the early days of cloud computing, datacenters were sparsely deployed at distant
locations far from end-users with high end-to-end communication latency. However, today's …

There is now a significant and growing functional gap between the public Internet, whose
basic architecture has remained unchanged for several decades, and a new generation of …

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, eg, at home, in
enterprise environments, and in production lines. To support the advanced functionalities of …

The majority of Web content is delivered by only a few companies that provide Content
Delivery Infrastructuress (CDIss) such as Content Delivery Networkss (CDNss) and cloud …

Network operators and researchers frequently use Internet measurement platforms (IMPs),
such as RIPE Atlas, RIPE RIS, or RouteViews for, eg, monitoring network performance …

Google, Netflix, Meta, and Akamai serve content to users from offnet servers in thousands of
ISPs. These offnets benefit both services and ISPs, via better performance and reduced …

Enterprises increasingly use public cloud services for critical business needs. However,
Internet protocols force clouds to contend with a lack of control, reducing the speed at which …

Cloud computing has seen continuous growth over the last decade. The recent rise in
popularity of next-generation applications brings forth the question:" Can current cloud …

Recent studies have shown centralization in the Domain Name System (DNS) around public
DNS services, which are hosted on centrally managed infrastructure and advertise higher …