Understanding the state of broadband connectivity: an analysis of speedtests and emerging technologies

R Sanchez-Arias, LG Jaimes, S Taj, MS Habib - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of access to broadband services and speeds that allows urban and rural
populations to meet the minimum requirements of today's society creates a lack of economic …

A multifaceted look at starlink performance

N Mohan, AE Ferguson, H Cech, R Bose… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Starlink network from SpaceX stands out as the only commercial LEO network with over
2M+ customers and more than 4000 operational satellites. In this paper, we conduct a first-of …

Decoding the Divide: Analyzing Disparities in Broadband Plans Offered by Major US ISPs

U Paul, V Gunasekaran, J Liu, TN Narechania… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Digital equity in Internet access is often measured along three axes: availability, affordability,
and adoption. Most prior work focuses on availability; the other two aspects have received …

LLMProxy: Reducing Cost to Access Large Language Models

N Martin, AB Faisal, H Eltigani, R Haroon… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we make a case for a proxy for large language models which has explicit
support for cost-saving optimizations. We design LLMProxy, which supports three key …

The Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing US Internet Access Inequities

H Manda, V Srinivasavaradhan, L Koduru… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Residential fixed broadband internet access in the US remains inequitable, despite
significant taxpayer investment. This paper evaluates the efficacy of the Connect America …

Beyond Data Points: Regionalizing Crowdsourced Latency Measurements

T Sharma, P Schmitt, F Bronzino, N Feamster… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Despite significant investments in access network infrastructure, universal access to high-
quality Internet connectivity remains a challenge. Policymakers often rely on large-scale …

Poor Representation of Rural Counties of the United States in Some Measures of Consumer Broadband

CA Bogulski, M Rabbani, CJ Hayes, AB Cengil… - Telemedicine …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Introduction: Telehealth has the potential to mitigate the lack of health care access in rural
and underserved communities; however, telehealth is only viable where sufficiently high …

Measuring Latency Reduction and the Digital Divide of Cloud Edge Datacenters

N Martin, F Dogar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05481, 2023 - arxiv.org
Cloud providers are highly incentivized to reduce latency. One way they do this is by
locating datacenters as close to users as possible. These" cloud edge" datacenters are …

Divided at the Edge-Measuring Performance and the Digital Divide of Cloud Edge Data Centers

N Martin, F Dogar - Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Cloud providers are highly incentivized to reduce latency. One way they do this is by
locating data centers as close to users as possible. These “cloud edge” data centers are …

[PDF][PDF] From Point Data to Geographic Boundaries: Regionalizing Crowdsourced Latency Measurements

T SHARMA, P SCHMITT, F BRONZINO… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - taveeshsharma.com
Measuring the performance of Internet access networks is critical for characterizing the
quality of service that ISPs deliver to users [11] and for identifying discrepancies in Internet …