Packet reordering is not pathological network behavior
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
End-to-end arguments in system design
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
MATE: multipath adaptive traffic engineering
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
NIRA: a new Internet routing architecture
FDNA '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture
Source routing in computer networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Stability of end-to-end algorithms for joint routing and rate control
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Walking the tightrope: responsive yet stable traffic engineering
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Policing congestion response in an internetwork using re-feedback
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Source selectable path diversity via routing deflections
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
The resource pooling principle
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Mixing biases: structural changes in the AS topology evolution
TMA'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
Balancing by PREFLEX: congestion aware traffic engineering
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the 10th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
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Parallelism pervades the Internet, yet efficiently pooling this increasing path diversity has remained elusive. We defend that the inability to progress beyond a single path paradigm is due to an inflexible resource sharing model, rather than a lack of routing solutions. The tussle between networks and hosts over resource sharing has constricted resource pooling into being redefined by stakeholders according to their own needs, often at the expense of others. In this paper we debate existing approaches to resource pooling and present PREFLEX, an architecture where edge networks and hosts both share the burden and reap the rewards of balancing traffic over multiple paths. Using PREF (Path RE-Feedback), networks suggest outbound paths to hosts, who in turn use LEX (Loss Exposure) to signal transport layer semantics such as loss and flow start to the underlying network. By making apparent network preferences and transport expectations, PREFLEX provides a mutualistic framework where congestion control and traffic engineering can both coexist and evolve independently.