A Holistic Framework for Bridging Regional Threats to User QoE. Cai, X., Heidemann, J., & Willinger, W. Technical Report ISI-TR-2013-687, USC/Information Sciences Institute, December, 2013.
A Holistic Framework for Bridging Regional Threats to User QoE [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
\emphSubmarine cable cuts have become increasingly common, with five incidents breaking more than ten cables in the last three years. Today, around%7e300 cables carry the majority of international Internet traffic, so a single cable cut can affect millions of users, and repairs to any cut are expensive and time consuming. Prior work has either measured the impact following incidents, or predicted the results of network changes to relatively abstract Internet topological models. In this paper, we develop a new approach to model cable cuts. Our approach differs by following \emphproblems drawn from real-world occurrences all the way to their impact on \emphend-users. Because our approach spans many layers, no single organization can provide all the data needed to apply the model. We therefore perform \emphwhat-if analysis to study a range of possibilities. With this approach we evaluate four incidents in 2012 and 2013; our analysis suggests general rules that assess the degree of a country's vulnerability to a cut.
@TechReport{Cai13c,
	author = 	"Xue Cai and John Heidemann and Walter Willinger",
	title = 	"A Holistic Framework for Bridging Regional Threats to
User {QoE}",
	 institution = 	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	 year = 		2013,
	 sortdate = 		"2013-12-01",
	project = "ant, lacrend",
	jsubject = "routing",
	 number =	"ISI-TR-2013-687",
	 month = 	dec,
	 jlocation = 	"johnh: pafile",
	 keywords =	"threat models, QoE",
	 copyrightholder = "author",
	 url =		"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Cai13c.html",
	 pdfurl =	"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Cai13c.pdf",
	 otherurl = "ftp://ftp.isi.edu/isi-pubs/tr-687.pdf",
	 myorganization =	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	blogurl = 	"https://ant.isi.edu/blog/?p=427",
	 abstract = "\emph{Submarine cable cuts} have become
increasingly common, with five
incidents breaking more than ten cables in the last three years.
Today, around%7e300 cables carry the majority of international Internet
traffic, so a single cable cut can affect millions of users, and
repairs to any cut are expensive and time consuming.  Prior work has
either measured the impact following incidents, or predicted the
results of network changes to relatively abstract Internet topological
models.  In this paper, we develop a new approach to model cable cuts.
Our approach differs by following \emph{problems} drawn from
real-world occurrences all the way to their impact on
\emph{end-users}.  Because our approach spans many layers, no single
organization can provide all the data needed to apply the model.  We
therefore perform \emph{what-if} analysis to study a range of
possibilities.  With this approach we evaluate four incidents in 2012
and 2013; our analysis suggests general rules that assess the degree
of a country's vulnerability to a cut.
"
}

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