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Localizing Traffic Differentiation

Shmeis, Zeinab  
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Abdullah, Muhammad  
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Nikolopoulos, Pavlos  
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2023
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’23), Oc- tober 24–26, 2023, Montreal, QC, Canada
ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2023

Network neutrality is important for users, content providers, policymakers, and regulators interested in understanding how network providers differentiate performance. When determining whether a network differentiates against certain traffic, it is important to have strong evidence, especially given that traffic differentiation is illegal in certain countries. In prior work, WeHe detects differentiation via end-to-end throughput measurements between a client and server but does not isolate the network responsible for it. Differentiation can occur anywhere on the network path between endpoints; thus, further evidence is needed to attribute differentiation to a specific network. We present a system, WeHeY, built atop WeHe, that can localize traffic differentiation, i.e., obtain concrete evidence that the differentiation happened within the client's ISP. Our system builds on ideas from network performance tomography; the challenge we solve is that TCP congestion control creates an adversarial environment for performance tomography (because it can significantly reduce the performance correlation on which tomography fundamentally relies). We evaluate our system via measurements "in the wild,'' as well as in emulated scenarios with a wide-area testbed; we further explore its limits via simulations and show that it accurately localizes traffic differentiation across a wide range of network conditions. WeHeY's source code is publicly available athttps://nal-epfl.github.io/WeHeY.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3618257.3624809
Author(s)
Shmeis, Zeinab  
Abdullah, Muhammad  
Nikolopoulos, Pavlos  
Argyraki, Katerina  
Choffnes, David
Gill, Phillipa
Date Issued

2023

Published in
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’23), Oc- tober 24–26, 2023, Montreal, QC, Canada
ISBN of the book

979-8-4007-0382-9

Total of pages

15

Start page

591

End page

605

Subjects

Network Neutrality; Traffic Differentiation

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2023

Montréal, Canada

October 24 - 26, 2023

Available on Infoscience
December 18, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/202682
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