ConQuest: fine-grained queue analysis
Guest Post: With ConQuest, operators and researchers can monitor the queuing buffer, pinpoint the particular bursty flows, and perform corrective actions.
Tag: measurement
Steering hyper-giants’ traffic at scale
Guest Post: New traffic engineering system, FlowDirector, reduces traffic overheads for large CDNs on long-haul links by 15%.
Traffic analysis still possible when using DoT and DoH
Guest Post: Study seeks to measure the effectiveness of encrypting the DNS for the purpose of privacy.
Is RPKI ready for the big screen?
Guest Post: Results from the first comprehensive, longitudinal study of the deployment and quality of RPKI.
Modelling BBR’s interactions with loss-based congestion control
Guest Post: While BBR is supposed to be a rate-based algorithm, when competing with other flows, BBR is window-limited.
Addressing 2019
Geoff Huston analyzes the trends in IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2019 and makes some predictions about what the future holds.
Hack your IPv6 enterprise network to deploy it securely!
Guest Post: New app assists with securely deploying IPv6 on Ethernet LANs.
BGP in 2019 – BGP Churn
Part two of Geoff’s BGP report for 2019 assesses whether the stability of the routing system is changing.
BGP in 2019 – The BGP Table
Geoff Huston analyses BGP routing table growth with some predictions for the size of the IPv4 and IPv6 BGP routing tables in the next five years.
When to use and not use BBR
Guest Post: The difference between the bottleneck buffer size and bandwidth-delay product typically dictates when BBR performs well, study finds.