Network Neutrality: Competition, Innovation, and Nondiscriminatory Access

Network Neutrality, Consumers, and Innovation

In this Article, Professor Christopher Yoo directly engages claims that mandating network neutrality is essential to protect consumers and to promote innovation on the Internet. It begins by analyzing the forces that are placing pressure on the basic network architecture to evolve, such as the emergence of Internet video and peer-to-peer architectures and the increasing heterogeneity in busines...

Network Neutrality or Internet Innovation?

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NANO: Network Access Neutrality Observatory

We present NANO, a system that establishes whether performance degradations that services or clients experience are caused by an ISP’s discriminatory policies. To distinguish discrimination from other causes of degradation (e.g., overload, misconfiguration, failure), NANO uses a statistical method to estimate causal effect. NANO aggregates passive measurements from end-hosts, stratifies the mea...

1 Network Economics: Neutrality, Competition, and Service Differentiation

In 2007 Comcast, a cable TV and Internet Service Provider in the United States, began to selectively rate limit or " shape " the traffic from users of the peer-to-peer application Bit Torrent. The access technology that Comcast uses is asymmetric in its capacity-the " uplink " from users is much slower than the " downlink. " For client-server applications like web, this asymmetry is fine, but f...

Network Neutrality and Transparency