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Summary: A Measurement-Based Analysis of Multihoming
Aditya Akella
Bruce Maggs
Srinivasan Seshan
Carnegie Mellon University
{aditya, srini+, bmm}@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-
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