fabianb As the Venezuelan crisis intensifies, researchers and policy experts have worked to understand its ramifications on the country’s politics, economics, health services, water security, infrastructure and more. Now, Northwestern University computer scientists have comprehensively examined the effects of the crisis on a previously unexplored area: the Internet. TechXplore, August 2, 2024.
Intercontinental Internet communications lie on top of a complex network of submarine cables forming its global communication backbone. As part of ongoing work focused on the criticality of the submarine cable network, fellow researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and I mapped traceroute measurements to submarine cables as a first step towards … Read more
November 28-29, 2023. Dr. Walter Willinger (NIKSUN) and Prof. Bustamante are co-organizing an NSF Workshop bringing together an initial group of national and international experts to sketch and start implementing a transformative research agenda for solving one of our community’s most challenging yet important tasks: the re-architecting tomorrow’s Internet for “survivability”, ensuring that the network … Read more
International mobile roaming is a key feature of cellular networks, enabling mobile subscribers to seamlessly use cellular services worldwide. It supports international travellers, who can access data roaming at a limited cost (or no cost), often using applications with stringent Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements (for example, VoLTE, video streaming). Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) infrastructure … Read more
The growth of global Internet traffic has driven a drastic expansion of the submarine cable network. Today, a complex mesh of hundreds of cables, stretching over one million kilometres, connects nearly every corner of the earth and is instrumental in closing the remaining connectivity gaps. Despite the scale and critical role of the submarine network … Read more
Change is coming to Cuba – Our early work on characterizing Cuba’s Internet connectivity to appear at the next ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2015! Read the full paper here It may have taken 54 years, but change is coming to Cuba. Last December, the US government announced plans to restore relations with Cuba and … Read more