How to lease the internet in your spare time

  • Authors:
  • Nick Feamster;Lixin Gao;Jennifer Rexford

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Tech;University of Massachusetts;Princeton University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Today's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) serve two roles: managing their network infrastructure and providing (arguably limited) services to end users. We argue that coupling these roles impedes the deployment of new protocols and architectures, and that the future Internet should support two separate entities: infrastructure providers (who manage the physical infrastructure) and service providers (who deploy network protocols and offer end-to-end services). We present a high-level design for Cabo, an architecture that enables this separation; we also describe challenges associated with realizing this architecture.