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Abstract | ||
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Net neutrality has been the subject of considerable public debate over the past decade. Despite the potential impact on content providers and users, there is currently a lack of tools or data for stakeholders to independently audit the net neutrality policies of network providers. In this work, we address this issue by conducting a one-year study of content-based traffic differentiation policies deployed in operational networks, using results from 1,045,413 crowdsourced measurements conducted by 126,249 users across 2,735 ISPs in 183 countries/regions. We develop and evaluate a methodology that combines individual per-device measurements to form high-confidence, statistically significant inferences of differentiation practices, including fixed-rate bandwidth limits (i.e., throttling) and delayed throttling practices. Using this approach, we identify differentiation in both cellular and WiFi networks, comprising 30 ISPs in 7 countries. We also investigate the impact of throttling practices on video streaming resolution for several popular video streaming providers.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1145/3341302.3342092 | SIGCOMM |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
network neutrality, traffic differentiation | Audit,Telecommunications,Computer science,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Traffic differentiation,Net neutrality,Bandwidth throttling,Neutrality,The Internet,Public debate | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4503-5956-6 | 2 | 0.45 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Fangfan Li | 1 | 8 | 1.59 |
| Arian Akhavan Niaki | 2 | 18 | 4.16 |
| David R. Choffnes | 3 | 1342 | 92.81 |
| Phillipa Gill | 4 | 1504 | 114.56 |
| Alan Mislove | 5 | 4671 | 255.18 |