A NEAT Way to Browse the Web

Felix Weinrank, Karl‐Johan Grinnemo, Zdravko Bozakov, Anna Brunström, Thomas Dreibholz, Gorry Fairhurst, Per Hurtig, Naeem Khademi, Michael Tüxen · 2017

There is a growing concern that the Internet transport layer has become ossified in the face of emerging novel applications, and that further evolution has become very difficult. The NEAT system is a novel and evolvable transport system that decouples applications from the underlying transport layer and network services. In so doing, it facilitates dynamic transport selection. This demo shows how the NEAT system is able to dynamically select the most appropriate transport solution for the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

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