ALTO-FCP: Application Layer Traffic Optimization Feedback-Based Client Protocol
draft-despotovic-alto-feedback-cp-00
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| Authors | Zoran Despotovic , Wolfgang Kellerer , Spiros Spirou, Dirk Staehle , Maria Rodriguez , Ioanna Papafili | ||
| Last updated | 2009-07-06 | ||
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Abstract
In some networked applications, such as peer-to-peer file sharing, the same resource (e.g., a file or a server process) is available at several potential resource providers. Resource consumers typically try to select providers so that application performance is improved, establishing an overlay topology of direct logical links in the process. However, lack of reliable information about the underlying network can lead to poor choices and suboptimal application performance. In addition, resulting application traffic is largely oblivious to technical, economical, and political constraints at the network level, causing problems for network operators. This document describes a protocol that facilitates the exchange of information between an overlay and the underlying network. Such information can be used at each layer to make decisions that are not detrimental to the other layer or, ideally, are beneficial to both.
Authors
Zoran Despotovic
Wolfgang Kellerer
Spiros Spirou
Dirk Staehle
Maria Rodriguez
Ioanna Papafili
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