IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Experience in measuring backbone traffic variability: models, metrics, measurements and meaning
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
Structural analysis of network traffic flows
Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Optimizing cost and performance for multihoming
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Routing in a delay tolerant network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Turning the postal system into a generic digital communication mechanism
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling (Wiley Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization)
Can ISPS and P2P users cooperate for improved performance?
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Diversity of forwarding paths in pocket switched networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
The diameter of opportunistic mobile networks
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
A root cause analysis toolkit for TCP
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
SIGMETRICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
P4p: provider portal for applications
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
The quest for a killer app for opportunistic and delay tolerant networks: (invited paper)
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Challenged networks
E2EDSM: An Edge-to-Edge Data Service Model for Mass Streaming Media Transmission
APPT '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies
NetEx: efficient and cost-effective internet bulk content delivery
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation
On economic heavy hitters: shapley value analysis of 95th-percentile pricing
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Optimally designing caches to reduce P2P traffic
Computer Communications
Inter-datacenter bulk transfers with netstitcher
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Bandwidth on demand for inter-data center communication
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
CIPT: using tuangou to reduce IP transit costs
Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
A history of an internet exchange point
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Lowering Inter-datacenter Bandwidth Costs via Bulk Data Scheduling
CCGRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012)
IXP traffic: a macroscopic view
Proceedings of the 7th Latin American Networking Conference
Sharing the cost of backbone networks: cui bono?
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
The internet-wide impact of P2P traffic localization on ISP profitability
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
LCD-Net: lowest cost denominator networking
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Delay-tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Many emerging scientific and industrial applications require transferring multiple Tbytes of data on a daily basis. Examples include pushing scientific data from particle accelerators/colliders to laboratories around the world, synchronizing data-centers across continents, and replicating collections of high definition videos from events taking place at different time-zones. A key property of all above applications is their ability to tolerate delivery delays ranging from a few hours to a few days. Such Delay Tolerant Bulk (DTB) data are currently being serviced mostly by the postal system using hard drives and DVDs, or by expensive dedicated networks. In this work we propose transmitting such data through commercial ISPs by taking advantage of already-paid-for off-peak bandwidth resulting from diurnal traffic patterns and percentile pricing. We show that between sender-receiver pairs with small time-zone difference, simple source scheduling policies are able to take advantage of most of the existing off-peak capacity. When the time-zone difference increases, taking advantage of the full capacity requires performing store-and-forward through intermediate storage nodes. We present an extensive evaluation of the two options based on traffic data from 200+ links of a large transit provider with PoPs at three continents. Our results indicate that there exists huge potential for performing multi Tbyte transfers on a daily basis at little or no additional cost.