Are We One Hop Away from a Better Internet?
Yi-Ching Chiu, Brandon Schlinker, Abhishek Balaji Radhakrishnan, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ramesh Govindan · 2015
The Internet suffers from well-known performance, reliability, and security problems. However, proposed improvements have seen little adoption due to the difficulties of Internet-wide deployment. We observe that, instead of trying to solve these problems in the general case, it may be possible to make substantial progress by focusing on solutions tailored to the paths between popular content providers and their clients, which carry a large share of Internet traffic.