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Abstract | ||
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Should applications receive special treatment from the network? And if so, who decides which applications are preferred? This discussion, known as net neutrality, goes beyond technology and is a hot political topic. In this paper we approach net neutrality from a user's perspective. Through user studies, we demonstrate that users do indeed want some services to receive preferential treatment; and their preferences have a heavy-tail: a one-size-fits-all approach is unlikely to work. This suggests that users should be able to decide how their traffic is treated. A crucial part to enable user preferences, is the mechanism to express them. To this end, we present network cookies, a general mechanism to express user preferences to the network. Using cookies, we prototype Boost, a user-defined fast-lane and deploy it in 161 homes. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1145/2934872.2934896 | SIGCOMM |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 1 | 0.36 |
References | Authors | |
13 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yiannis Yiakoumis | 1 | 619 | 40.74 |
| Sachin Katti | 2 | 5775 | 344.82 |
| Nick McKeown | 3 | 13247 | 1201.05 |