TY - GEN
T1 - The internet at the speed of light
AU - Singla, Ankit
AU - Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan
AU - Brighten Godfrey, P.
AU - Maggs, Bruce
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 ACM.
PY - 2014/10/27
Y1 - 2014/10/27
N2 - For many Internet services, reducing latency improves the user experience and increases revenue for the service provider. While in principle latencies could nearly match the speed of light, we find that infrastructural inefficiencies and protocol overheads cause today's Internet to be much slower than this bound: typically by more than one, and often, by more than two orders of magnitude. Bridging this large gap would not only add value to today's Internet applications, but could also open the door to exciting new applications. Thus, we propose a grand challenge for the networking research community: a speed-of-light Internet. To inform this research agenda, we investigate the causes of latency inflation in the Internet across the network stack. We also discuss a few broad avenues for latency improvement.
AB - For many Internet services, reducing latency improves the user experience and increases revenue for the service provider. While in principle latencies could nearly match the speed of light, we find that infrastructural inefficiencies and protocol overheads cause today's Internet to be much slower than this bound: typically by more than one, and often, by more than two orders of magnitude. Bridging this large gap would not only add value to today's Internet applications, but could also open the door to exciting new applications. Thus, we propose a grand challenge for the networking research community: a speed-of-light Internet. To inform this research agenda, we investigate the causes of latency inflation in the Internet across the network stack. We also discuss a few broad avenues for latency improvement.
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U2 - 10.1145/2670518.2673876
DO - 10.1145/2670518.2673876
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84914689740
T3 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2014
BT - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 13th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2014
Y2 - 27 October 2014 through 28 October 2014
ER -