@inproceedings{e913f8bdfed0431089a74e7ec1cbe004,
title = "Evaluation of free-riding traffic problem in overlay routing and its mitigation method",
abstract = "Recent research on overlay networks has revealed that user-perceived network performance could be improved by an overlay routing mechanism. The effectiveness of overlay routing is mainly a result of the policy mismatch between the overlay routing and the underlay IP routing operated by ISPs. However, this policy mismatch causes a {"}free-riding{"} traffic problem, which may become harmful to the cost structure of Internet Service Providers. In the present paper, we define the free-riding problem in the overlay routing and evaluate the degree of free-riding traffic to reveal the effect of the problem on ISPs. We introduce a numerical metric to evaluate the degree of the free-riding problem and confirm that most multihop overlay paths that have better performance than the direct path brings the free-riding problem. We also discuss the guidelines for selecting paths that are more effective than the direct path and that mitigate the free-riding problem.",
keywords = "Available bandwidth, End-to-end delay, Free-riding traffic, Overlay networks, Overlay routing, TCP throughput",
author = "Go Hasegawa and Yuichiro Hiraoka and Masayuki Murata",
year = "2009",
month = jul,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1109/ICNS.2009.11",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780769535869",
series = "Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2009",
pages = "210--215",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2009",
note = "5th International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2009 ; Conference date: 20-04-2009 Through 25-04-2009",
}