@techreport{wang-alto-ecs-flows-01, number = {draft-wang-alto-ecs-flows-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-alto-ecs-flows/01/}, author = {Xvdong Shelden Shen and Jingxuan Zhang and Junzhuo Austin Wang and Qiao Xiang}, title = {{ALTO Extension: Endpoint Cost Service for Flows}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2016, month = apr, day = 20, abstract = {The Endpoint Cost Service (ECS) has limitations to illustrate the network condition and to work with the OpenFlow protocol. This document extends ECS to improve the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) protocol by (1) defining more types of endpoint address such as port number, protocol type, domain and etc; (2) adding flow constraints.}, }