Summary: A Measurement­Based Analysis of Multihoming
Aditya Akella
Bruce Maggs 
Srinivasan Seshan
Carnegie Mellon University
faditya, srini+, bmmg@cs.cmu.edu
Anees Shaikh
IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center
aashaikh@watson.ibm.com
Ramesh Sitaraman 
Univ. of Massachusetts
ramesh@akamai.com
ABSTRACT
Multihoming has traditionally been employed by stub networks to
enhance the reliability of their network connectivity. With the ad­
vent of commercial ``intelligent route control'' products, stubs now
leverage multihoming to improve performance. Although multi­
homing is widely used for reliability and, increasingly for perfor­
mance, not much is known about the tangible benefits that multi­

Source: Akella, Aditya - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Shaikh, Anees - IBM Almaden Research Center

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences