In their unrelenting quest for lower latency, cloud providers are
deploying servers closer to their customers and enterprises are adopting
paid Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offerings with performance guarantees.
Unfortunately, these trends contribute to greater industry
consolidation, benefiting larger companies and well-served regions while
leaving little room for smaller cloud providers and enterprises to
flourish. Instead, we argue that the public Internet could offer good
enough performance if only edge networks could control wide-area
routing.
More concretely, we envision an incrementally deployable system,
namely Tango, that allows individual pairs of edge networks (e.g.,
access, enterprise, and data-center networks) to optimize Internet paths
between them without collaboration from the Internet core. Tango relies
on the cooperation between the two edge networks to expose more
wide-area paths, and achieve accurate and trustworthy monitoring. Tango
has the potential to fight the industry consolidation and the associated
privacy, financial, and political risks.
Bio
Maria Apostolaki joined Princeton University as an Assistant
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 2022. She is
associated with the CS Department, CITP and DeCenter.
Her research draws from networking, security, blockchain, and machine
learning. Overall, her goal is to design and build networked systems
that are secure, reliable and performant.