SmoothIT: Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies

SmoothIT addresses innovatively the detailed economic and technical mechanisms for a flexible, secure, and scalable traffic management of overlay networks in tomorrow' s ISPs and telecommunication operators networking infrastructure.

The project has the following major objectives to be pursued in support of the overall aim of radically advancing technology:
1. SmoothIT will structure overlays in a way that is is efficient or optimal, both for user communities and for ISPs. This is to be attained by means of economic and incentive mechanisms
2. SmoothIT will study and define key requirements for a commercial application of economic traffic management schemes for ISPs and telcos.
3. In order to advance traffic management beyond traditional limits, specialized economic theory will be applied for building in a fully decentralized way network efficient Internet-based overlay services in multi-domain scenarios, solving the information asymmetry problem.
4. SmoothIT will design, prototype, and validate the necessary networking infrastructure and their components for an efficient implementation of such economic traffic management mechanisms in an IP test-bed and trial network.
5. SmoothIT will develop an optimized incentive-driven signaling approach for defining (theory) and delivering (technology) economic signals across domain boundaries in support of co-operating and competing providers in an interconnected heterogeneous network environment.
6. SmoothIT will integrate concepts from previous work, such as M3I and MMAPPS, leveraging existing knowledge and applying it to future overlay services.
7. SmoothIT will stress operator-orientation by verifying key results of the work through ISP and telco requirements as well as its supporting technology.

 

 

 

AUEB's main role was:

  • To develop the theoretical foundations for creating an instance of a Next Generation Economic Traffic Management Approach (ETM) in a co-operative and overlapping relation to current traffic management approaches
  • To develop models for the network, overlay network, entities, traffic, and incentives which are applied for overlay applications and compared to existing traffic management systems
  • To determine a classification and an overview of suitable ETM self-organization mechanisms in order to support the proper selection of incentive-compatible self-organizing mechanisms
  • To define new and scalable ETJM mechanisms for overlay applications, being self-organized, incentive-compatible and fully-decentralized
  • To evolve concepts of existing economic theory beyond current application domains and apply it to overlay applications and networks by including incentives as well as incentive signals for service usage and service management
  • To employ game-theoretic techniques in order to study incentives for ISP collaborations
  • To analyze the performance, the reliability, and the scalability of ETM mechanisms, in particular with respect to the stochastic behavior of participating nodes, thus, evaluating those new ETM mechanisms

Publications

Journals and Book Chapters

  • S. Soursos, I. Papafili, F. Lehrieder, S. Spirou, M.A. Callejo-Rodriguez, G.D. Stamoulis, Managing Peer-to-Peer Traffic through Caching, (under submission)
  • I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis, R. Stankiewicz, S. Oechsner, K. Pussep, R. Wojcik, J. Domzal, D. Staehle, F. Lehrieder, B. Stiller, Assessment of Economic Traffic Management of Overlay Traffic: Methodology and Results, in 3rd FIA Book, ISBN 978-3-642-20897-3. Editor(s): J. Domingue, et al., pp.: 121, IOS Press Books Online, Future Internet: Achievements and Promising Technology, May 2011. [pdf]
  • B. Stiller, T. Hossfeld, G. D. Stamoulis. Incentives, Overlays, and Economic Traffic Control. 3rd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (ETM 2010). ISBN 978-3-642-15485-0, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, Vol. 6236, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2010. [pdf]
  • S. Soursos, M. A. Callejo Rodriguez, K. Pussep, P. Racz, S. Spirou, G. D. Stamoulis, B. Stiller. "ETMS: A System for Economic Management of Overlay Traffic. Towards the Future Internet – Emerging Trends from European Research, IOS Press, ISBN 978-1-60750-538-9, pp 1-10, Valencia, Spain, April 2010. [pdf]
  • T. Hossfeld, D. Hausheer, F. Hecht, F. Lehrieder, S. Oechsner, I. Papafili, P. Racz, S. Soursos, D. Staehle, G. D. Stamoulis, Phuoc Tran-Gia, Burkhard Stiller. An Economic Traffic Management Approach to Enable the TripleWin for Users, ISPs, and Overlay Providers. FIA Prague Book, ISBN 978-1-60750-007-0. [pdf]
  • V. Siris, I. Ganchev, M. O'Doroma, B. Stiller. Services, Optimization, and Economic Aspects. Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer. Vol. 31, pages 267-302, May 2009. [pdf]

Conferences

  • S. Soursos, D. Staehle, G.D. Stamoulis, A Cost-Benefit Analysis for Economic Traffic Management Mechanisms, (under submission)
  • I. Papafili, S. Soursos, G.D. Stamoulis, A Game-Theoretic Framework for ISPs' Interactions Anticipating Users' Reactions, (submitted)
  • E. Agiatzidou, G. D. Stamoulis. Collaboration between ISPs for Efficient Overlay Traffic Management. IFIP Networking, Valencia, Spain, 9-13 May 2011. [pdf]
  • I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis, F. Lehrieder, B. Kleine, S. Oechsner: Cache Capacity Allocation to Overlay Swarms, 5th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS'2011), Karlsruhe, Germany, 23-24 February 2011. [pdf]
  • K. Pussep, S. Kuleshov, C. Gross, S. Soursos. An Incentive-based Approach to Traffic Management for Peer-to-Peer Overlays. 3rd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (ETM '10) collocated with 22nd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 22), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2010. [pdf]
  • I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis: A Markov Model for the Evaluation of Cache Insertion on Peer-to-Peer Performance, EuroNF NGI conference, Paris, June 2010. [pdf]
  • M. A. Callejo Rodriguez, J. A. S. Garcia, A. M. Martin-Carnerero, P. Racz, F. Hecht, S. Spirou, I. Papafili, G. Stamoulis, W. Kellerer, K. Wajda. NGN Usage in Future Internet Scenarios. Future Network and MobileSummit 2010, IIMC International Information Management Corporation, Florence, Italy, June 2010. [pdf]
  • S. Soursos, S. Spirou, M. Makidis, M. A. Callejo Rodriguez, J. A. S. Garcia. BGP-based Locality Promotion for Cooperative Management of Overlay Traffic. 4th GI/ITG KuVS Workshop on The Future Internet and 2nd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management, Zurich, Switzerland, November 9-10, 2009. [pdf]
  • E. Agiatzidou, G. D. Stamoulis. Collaboration between Peering ISPs for Economic Management of Overlay Traffic (extended abstract), 4th GIITG KuVS Workshop on The Future Internet and 2nd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (ETM), Zurich, November 9-10, 2009.
  • P. Racz, S. Soursos, M. A. Callejo Rodriguez, S. Spirou, F. Hecht, I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis, H. Hasan, B. Stiller. Economic Traffic Management for Overlay Networks. ICT-Mobile Summit 2009, Santander, Spain, June 2009. [pdf]
  • I. Papafili, S. Soursos, G. D. Stamoulis. Improvement of BitTorrent Performance and Inter-Domain Traffic by Inserting ISP-owned Peers. 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT'09), Aachen, Germany, May 2009. [pdf]
  • S. Oechsner, S. Soursos, I. Papafili, T. Hossfeld, G. D. Stamoulis, B. Stiller, M. Angeles Callejo, D. Staehle. A framework of economic traffic management employing self-organization overlay mechanisms. Third International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS'08), Vienna, Austria, December 2008. [pdf]
  • J. P. Gimenez, M. A. Callejo Rodriguez, H. Hasan, T. Hossfeld, D. Staehle, Z. Despotovic, W. Kellerer, K. Pussep, I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis, B. Stiller. A New Approach for Managing Traffic of Overlay Applications of the SmoothIT Project. 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS '08), Bremen, Germany, July 2008.

Presentations

  • I. Papafili, A game-theoretic Framework for ISP Interactions in the Context of ETM, EuroNF Workshop on Traffic and Congestion Control, Volos, March 2011. [pdf]
  • I. Papafili, Improvement of Users' QoE and Reduction of ISPs' Cost by Insertion of IoPs, Communication Services Group, CSG, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, February 2011. [pdf]
  • G. D. Stamoulis, Economic and Incentives' Mechanisms for All-Win Overlay Traffic Management, Invited presentation given in the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSIR) of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) on February 10, 2011. [pdf]
  • G. D. Stamoulis, A game-theoretic framework for ISP interactions in the context of ETM, 3rd EuroNF Socio-Economics Workshop, Ghent, Belgium, December 15, 2010.
  • G. D. Stamoulis, Incentives and QoS, short presentation in Future Internet Cluster Workshop: Socio-Economics of the Network of the Future, Brussels, Belgium, October 18, 2010.
  • C. Courcoubetis: Socio-economic Challenges for the Internet of the Future: The Case of Congestion Control, 3rd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (ETM 2011), Amsterdam, September 6th, 2010.
  • G. D. Stamoulis: Serving the Incentives of Users and Providers, Future Internet Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, November 23, 2009.
  • S. Soursos: ETMS: A System for Economic Management of Overlay Traffic. Poster Session, Future Internet Assembly, Kista-Stockholm, Sweden, November 23-24, 2009.
  • S. Soursos: What does Future Internet means for Enterprises? The FISE perspective. Future Internet Assembly, Kista-Stockholm, Sweden, November 23-24, 2009.
  • G. D. Stamoulis: Achieving Win-Win by means of Economic Management of Traffic, 2nd EU-Japan Symposium on New Generation Networks and Future Internet, Tokyo, Japan, October 13-14, 2009.
  • S. Soursos: Dealing with the Economic Implications of Overlay Traffic: Issues and Ideas, Euro-NF plenary meeting, Kaiserslautern, June 3-5, 2009.
  • S. Soursos: SmoothIT Project and FISE Scenarios for the Future Internet, Future Internet Cluster Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, February 17, 2009.
  • C. Courcoubetis: Socio-economic Issues in the Internet of the Future. Keynote, FIA Madrid, Future Internet Socio-Economics Session, Madrid, Spain, December 2008.
  • S. Soursos: Presentation of Results of ISP-owned Peer Studies. Joint Economic Traffic Workshop, organized by SmoothIT, EC-GIN, and EMANICS, Zurich, Switzerland, 4-5 August 2008.