• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.151-161
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• 2005

For Internet service providers (ISPs), there are three common types of interconnection agreements : private peering, public peering and transit. One of the most important problems for a single ISP is to determine which other ISPs to interconnect with, and under which agreements. The problem can be then to find a set of private peering providers, transit providers and Internet exchanges (IXs) when the following input data are assumed to be given : a set of BGP addresses with traffic demands, and a set of potential service providers (Private peering/transit providers and IXs) with routing information, cost functions and capacities. The objective is to minimize the total interconnection cost. We show that the problem is NP-hard, give a mixed-integer programming model, and propose a heuristic algorithm. Computational experience with a set of test instances shows the remarkable performance of the proposed algorithm of rapidly generating near-optimal solutions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.388-393
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• 2005

Private peering, public peering and transit are three common types of interconnection agreements between providers in the Internet. An important decision that an Internet service provider (ISP) has to make is which private peering/transit ISPs and Internet exchanges (IXs) to connect with to transfer traffic at a minimal cost. In this paper, we deal with the problem to find the minimum cost set of private peering/transit ISPs and IXs for a single ISP. There are given a set of destinations with traffic demands, and a set of potential private peering/transit ISPs and IXs with routing information (routes per destination, the average AS-hop count to each destination, etc.), cost functions and capacities. Our study first considers all the three interconnection types commonly used in real world practices. We show that the problem is NP-hard, and propose a heuristic algorithm for it. We then evaluate the quality of the heuristic solutions for a set of test instances via comparison with the optimal ones obtained by solving a mixed integer programming formulation of the problem. Computational results show that the proposed algorithm provides near-optimal solutions in a fast time.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.97-115
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• 2007

The present paper investigates the technological and conceptional characteristics of peering and transit in internet interconnection. Especially, the market with two ISP competing for customers is modeled and the outcome with peering is compared with transit. This paper also analyze the congestion effects on retail price and network capacity. When there is congestion effects occurring from network sharing, the retail price is increased and the fixed fee is decreased with the degree of congestion. Finally, the optimal access charge assuring the socially optimal retail price and network capacity is derived.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.975-988
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• 2016

Large access providers (ISPs) are seeking for new types of business agreements and pricing models to manage network costs and monetize better the provision of last-mile services. A typical paradigm of such new pricing norms is the proliferation of paid peering deals between ISPs and content providers (CPs), while on top of this, some ISPs are already experimenting with usage-based tariffs, usually through data-plans, instead of the typical fixed-based charging. In this work we define as common platform, the infrastructure in which a single ISP transacts with several CPs through peering agreements. In this context, we examine whether, and under which market conditions, the profitability of the involved stakeholders improves when the establishment of this platform is accompanied by a monetary compensation from the CPs to the ISP (paid peering), v.s. a scenario where their deal is a typical settlement-free one. In both cases, we assume that the ISP implements a usage-based access pricing scheme, implying that end-users will pay more for higher transaction rates with the CPs. Our framework captures some of the most important details of the current market, such as the various business models adopted by the CPs, the end-users' evaluation towards the ISP's and CPs' level of investments and the traffic rates per transaction for the offered services. By analysing the equilibrium derived by a leader-follower game, it turns out (among other practical takeaways) that whether or not the profitability of a CP improves, it highly depends on whether its business model is to sell content, or if it obtains its revenue from advertisements. Finally, we extract that consumer surplus is considerably higher under paid peering, which in turn implies improved levels of social welfare.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.188-189
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• 2007

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.123-134
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• 2021

This paper suggests that the Internet is not free through analysis of U.S. Internet history and lawsuits related to the Charter merger in 2016. Generally speaking, the players in internet connectivity market agree to Non-Disclosure Agreement, when connecting their facilities and networks each other. So, I adopted the case study & analysis as research methodologies due to limitation of collecting the transaction data between them. The former finds that Internet access has never been free in U.S Internet history. As we know, some including Content Providers(CPs) argue that the Internet is a free network and there are many cases to use the internet for free, so they came to conclusion that ISPs have no right to charge the users like CPs. This study refutes these arguments in two ways. One is that using the internet has never been free. From ARPANET, known as the beginning of the U.S. Internet, to the commercialization of backbone, no Internet has been considered or implemented for free since the early Internet network was devised. Also, the U.S government was paying subsidies or institutions were paying fees to secure network operations for the NSFNET backbone. the other is that "free peering" refers to barter transactions between ISPs, not to free access to counterpart internet networks. Second, this study analyze the FCC' executive order of conditioned merger approval and the court's related ruling and verify that using the internet is not free. According to the analysis, this study finds that it's real situation to make paid settlements between ISP-CPs (including OTTs) in the US Internet market at the moment. This study concludes that the Internet has never been free in terms of its technical characteristics, network structure, network operation, and system. Also it proposes how to improve the domestic settlement system between ISPs-CPs in terms of policy and regulation.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.786-790
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• 2007

Up to now, surgeons have operated while peering at images which visualize the medical state of the patient such as MRI or CT images. On the other hand, direct-projected augmented reality technology liberates surgeons from the inconvenience by directly projecting medical information onto the patient's body. However surgeons still feel inconvenient when they mark surgical targets for planning an operation because they use an ink pen which is difficult to modify or delete and is also likely to be unsanitary. In this paper, we resolve these problems by proposing an interactive user interface based on direct-projected augmented reality technology and its validity is shown in experimental results.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.181-190
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• 2010

A multitude of overlay network designs for resilient routing, multicasting, quality of service, content distribution, storage, and object location have been proposed. Overlay networks offer several attractive features, including ease of deployment, flexibility, adaptivity, and an infrastructure for collaboration among hosts. In this paper, we explore cooperation among co-existing, possibly heterogeneous, overlay networks. We discuss a spectrum of cooperative forwarding and information sharing services, and investigate the associated scalability, heterogeneity, and security problems. Motivated by these services, we design Synergy, a utility-based overlay internetworking architecture that fosters overlay cooperation. Our architecture promotes fair peering relationships to achieve synergism. Results from Internet experiments with cooperative forwarding overlays indicate that our Synergy prototype improves delay, throughput, and loss performance, while maintaining the autonomy and heterogeneity of individual overlay networks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.249-268
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• 1997

Unlike most print resources such as magazines and journals that go through an filtering process (e.g. editing, peering review), information in world Wide Web and Internet is mostly unfiltered. Using and citing information found over Web may not be reliable or authoritative. Therefore it is necessary to develop skills to evaluate what we found on the net. Fifteen evaluation documents for WWW are collected, analyzed from digital sources of U. S. academic libraries and common criteria for evaluating WWW resources are developed. Also several practical steps were made to overcome the quality problems.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.377-381
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• 2005

각종 서비스와 망의 통합화 추세에 따라, 기존의 수익성 있고 인기 있는 서비스를 통합하여 새로운 부가서비스를 창출할 수 있는 번들링 서비스에 대한 요구가 늘어나고 있다. 이러한 번들링 서비스는 다양한 서비스의 통합으로 이루어질 수 있으며 기 진행 중인 서비스에 영향을 주지 않으면서 고객이 원하는 통합 효과를 얻을 수 있는 데이터 관점에서의 통합이 효과적이다. 여기서는 각 서비스에서 발생한 데이터 변화가 서비스를 대표하는 소프트웨어 에이젼트를 통하여 타 서비스의 에이젼트에 영향을 주어 고객이 원하는 서비스 통합을 가능하게 하는 에이젼트 기반 소프트웨어 플랫폼인 SPAS(Service Peering and Aggregation Server)에 대해서 기술한다. SPAS는 각 서비스들의 구조를 변경시키지 않고 표준적인 통신 규격에 따라 인터넷 환경에서 핵심적인 역할을 수행하고 있는 중요 서비스들(메신져, 인터넷폰, 아웃룩 일정관리)을 결합시는데 성공하였다. 현재 개발된 플랫폼은 인터넷망의 사용에 한정되어 있으나, 추후 연동 G/W를 이용하여 유선과, 무선 그리고, 각종 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 제공서비스에까지 확대될 수 있을 것이다.