Paper Info
Title
cISP: A Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider.
Abstract
Low latency is a requirement for a variety of interactive network applications. The Internet, however, is not optimized for latency. We thus explore the design of cost-effective wide-area networks that move data over paths very close to great-circle paths, at speeds very close to the speed of light in vacuum. Our cISP design augments the Internetu0027s fiber with free-space wireless connectivity. cISP addresses the fundamental challenge of simultaneously providing low latency and scalable bandwidth, while accounting for numerous practical factors ranging from transmission tower availability to packet queuing. We show that instantiations of cISP across the contiguous United States and Europe would achieve mean latencies within 5% of that achievable using great-circle paths at the speed of light, over medium and long distances. Further, we estimate that the economic value from such networks would substantially exceed their expense.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Networking and Internet Architecture
Computer science,Latency (engineering),Network packet,Computer network,Ranging,Bandwidth (signal processing),Queueing theory,Latency (engineering),Distributed computing,The Internet,Scalability
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1809.10897
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
12
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Debopam Bhattacherjee171.82
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi2485.74
Ilker Nadi Bozkurt371.49
Muhammad Tirmazi410.36
Waqar Aqeel572.16
Anthony Aguirre670.81
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran78410.39
P. Brighten Godfrey82519145.37
Gregory Laughlin971.82
Bruce M. Maggs103592368.31
Ankit Singla1144329.69