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Interconnecting networks with optimized service provisioning

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A recent trend of peering at geo-diversified Internet exchange points (IXPs) has empowered decades-old proposal of inter-networking and opened up new avenues of business ventures. IP-transit, cloud direct and remote peering are a few important amongst numerous proposals of service provisioning capitalizing on this peering infrastructure support across domains. Enduring these business proposals becomes a challenging task, especially when the increased dependency of enterprises over the Internet is affirmed. Volatile traffic priorities necessitate different strategies of flow management for each pattern of enterprise traffic. Providing diverse service guarantees to each traffic class require careful selection of resource allocation and compliance of inter-domain policies. In this paper, we propose a novel orchestration framework that helps to stitch end-to-end traffic engineering compliant multiple paths. The framework enables prioritized management of various traffic classes in a centralized manner by employing software defined networking paradigm. Abstraction of multi-graph from the inter-connectivity of peering anchors helps to gear service provisioning spanning across multiple domains. Beside presenting details of our framework, we have articulated use cases highlighting the efficacy of our proposal. We have observed a maximum increase of 26.52% in throughput using proposed model compared with an optimization formulation from literature. Our results imply transparent utility of this formulation for various network topologies and traffic loads.

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  1. Usually hundreds of ISPs peer at a single IXP, for instance, in Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) 828 participants are peering to-date. 836 ASes are peering at London Internet Exchange (LINX). For brevity and better visualization, we have shown few service providers and few transit providers peer at each IXP.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the National Funding from the FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through the UID/EEA/50008/2019 Project; and by Brazilian National Council for Research and Development (CNPq) via Grant No. 309335/2017-5.

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  1. National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Abdul Basit, Saad Qaisar & Mudassar Ali

  2. University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Taxila, Pakistan

    Mudassar Ali

  3. COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Wah Cantt, 47040, Pakistan

    Muhammad Naeem

  4. Internet Initiative Japan Institute of Innovation, Tokyo, Japan

    Marc Bruyere

  5. Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil

    Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

  6. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

    Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

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Appendix A: AMPL code of proposed mathematical model

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Basit, A., Qaisar, S., Ali, M. et al. Interconnecting networks with optimized service provisioning. Telecommun Syst 73, 223–239 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-019-00606-3

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