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Improving User Experience By Optimizing Cloud Services, Ishita Dasgupta
Improving User Experience By Optimizing Cloud Services, Ishita Dasgupta
Doctoral Dissertations
Today, cloud services offer myriads of applications, tailor made for different users in the field of weather, health, finance, entertainment, etc. These services fulfill varying genres of user demands over the Internet. For example, these services can be live (live weather radar, ESPN Live) or on-demand services (weather forecasting, Netflix). While these applications cater to different customer requirements, it is necessary for these services to be efficient with respect to latency, scalability, robustness and quality of experience. These systems need to constantly evolve to provide the best user experience and meet the most current demands of the customer. For instance, …
Leveraging Conventional Internet Routing Protocol Behavior To Defeat Ddos And Adverse Networking Conditions, Jared M. Smith
Leveraging Conventional Internet Routing Protocol Behavior To Defeat Ddos And Adverse Networking Conditions, Jared M. Smith
Doctoral Dissertations
The Internet is a cornerstone of modern society. Yet increasingly devastating attacks against the Internet threaten to undermine the Internet's success at connecting the unconnected. Of all the adversarial campaigns waged against the Internet and the organizations that rely on it, distributed denial of service, or DDoS, tops the list of the most volatile attacks. In recent years, DDoS attacks have been responsible for large swaths of the Internet blacking out, while other attacks have completely overwhelmed key Internet services and websites. Core to the Internet's functionality is the way in which traffic on the Internet gets from one destination …
Content Placement As A Key To A Content-Dominated, Highly Mobile Internet, Abhigyan Sharma
Content Placement As A Key To A Content-Dominated, Highly Mobile Internet, Abhigyan Sharma
Doctoral Dissertations
Most of the Internet traffic is content, and most of the Internet connected hosts are mobile. Our work focuses on the design of infrastructure services needed to support such a content-dominated, highly mobile Internet. In the design of these services, three sets of decisions arise frequently: (1) Content placment for selecting the locations where a content is placed, (2) request redirection for selecting the location where a particular request is served from and (3) network routing for selecting the physical path between clients and the services they are accessing. Our central thesis is that content placement is a powerful factor, …
Robust Mobile Data Transport: Modeling, Measurements, And Implementation, Yung-Chih Chen
Robust Mobile Data Transport: Modeling, Measurements, And Implementation, Yung-Chih Chen
Doctoral Dissertations
Advances in wireless technologies and the pervasive influence of multi-homed devices have significantly changed the way people use the Internet. These changes of user behavior and the evolution of multi-homing technologies have brought a huge impact to today's network study and provided new opportunities to improve mobile data transport. In this thesis, we investigate challenges related to human mobility, with emphases on network performance at both system level and user level. More specifically, we seek to answer the following two questions: 1) How to model user mobility in the networks and use the model for network provisioning? 2) Is it …
Making Networks Robust To Component Failures, Daniel Gyllstrom
Making Networks Robust To Component Failures, Daniel Gyllstrom
Doctoral Dissertations
In this thesis, we consider instances of component failure in the Internet and in networked cyber-physical systems, such as the communication network used by the modern electric power grid (termed the smart grid). We design algorithms that make these networks more robust to various component failures, including failed routers, failures of links connecting routers, and failed sensors. This thesis divides into three parts: recovery from malicious or misconfigured nodes injecting false information into a distributed system (e.g., the Internet), placing smart grid sensors to provide measurement error detection, and fast recovery from link failures in a smart grid communication …