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Multihoming Performance Benefits:An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies

Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan	Anees Shaikh
Dept. of Computer Science	Network Software and Services
Carnegie Mellon University	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15213	Hawthorne, NY 10532

• • Abstract
  
  
• Introduction
• Solution Overview
  • Monitoring Provider Links
  • Choosing the Best Provider
  • Directing Traffic Over Selected Providers
  
  
• Implementation Details
  • Performance Monitoring Algorithms
    • Passive Measurement
    • Active Measurement
  • Switching Providers
  • NAT-based Inbound Route Control
  
  
• Experimental Evaluation
  • Experimental Set-up
    • Testbed topology
    • Compressing time
    • Comparison Metric
  • Experimental Results
    • Selecting the Client Workloads
    • Improvements from Route Control
    • Employing History to Estimate Performance
    • Active vs Passive Measurement
    • Frequency of Performance Monitoring
    • Analysis of overheads
  
  
• Implications and Discussion
  • Additional Issues
  • DNS for Inbound Route Control
  
  
• Related Work
• Summary and Ongoing Work
  • Acknowledgments
  
  
• Bibliography
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