5722464
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10.5281/zenodo.5722464
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Perino, Diego
Telefonica Research
Bagnulo, Marcelo
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Bustamante, Fabián E.
Northwestern University
Insights from Operating an IP Exchange Provider
Lutu, Andra
Telefonica Research
doi:10.1145/3452296.3472930
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<p>IP Exchange Providers (IPX-Ps) offer to their customers (e.g., mobile or IoT service providers) global data roaming and support for a variety of emerging services. They peer to other IPX-Ps and form the IPX network, which interconnects 800 MNOs worldwide offering their customers access to mobile services in any other country. Despite the importance of IPX-Ps, little is known about their operations and performance. In this paper, we shed light on these opaque providers by analyzing a large IPX-P with more than 100 PoPs in 40+ countries, with a particularly strong presence in America and Europe. Specifically, we characterize the traffic and performance of the main infrastructures of the IPX-P (i.e., 2-3-4G signaling and GTP tunneling), and provide implications for its operation, as well as for the IPX-P's customers. Our analysis is based on statistics we collected during two time periods (i.e., prior and during COVID-19 pandemic) and includes insights on the main service the platform supports (i.e., IoT and data roaming), traffic breakdown and geographical/temporal distribution, communication performance (e.g., tunnel setup time, RTTs). Our results constitute a step towards advancing the understanding of IPX-Ps at their core, and provide guidelines for their operations and customer satisfaction.</p>
Zenodo
2021-08-26
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferencePaper
5722463
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award_title=Dynamic Interconnections for the Cellular Ecosystem; award_number=841315; award_identifiers_scheme=url; award_identifiers_identifier=https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/841315; funder_id=00k4n6c32; funder_name=European Commission;
award_title=Network intelligence for aDAptive and sElf-Learning MObile Networks; award_number=101017109; award_identifiers_scheme=url; award_identifiers_identifier=https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/101017109; funder_id=00k4n6c32; funder_name=European Commission;
award_title=PIMCITY: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION PERSONAL DATA PLATFORMS; award_number=871370; award_identifiers_scheme=url; award_identifiers_identifier=https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/871370; funder_id=00k4n6c32; funder_name=European Commission;
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