@article {18529,
	title = {Towards an Internet Connectivity Market},
	volume = {GT-CS-09-01},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009///},
	institution = {Georgia Institute of Technology},
	abstract = {Today{\textquoteright}s Internet achieves end-to-end connectivity through bilateral contracts between neighboring networks; unfortunately, this {\textquotedblleft}one size fits all{\textquotedblright} connectivity results in less efficient paths, unsold capacity and unmet demand, and sometimes catastrophic market failures that result in global disconnectivity. This paper presents the design and evaluation of MINT, a Market for Internet Transit. MINT is a connectivity market and corresponding set of protocols that allows ISPs to offer path segments on an open market. Edge networks bid for end-to-end paths, and a mediator matches bids for paths to collections of path segments that form end-to-end paths. MINT can be deployed using protocols that are present in today{\textquoteright}s routers, and it operates in parallel with the existing routing infrastructure and connectivity market. We present MINT{\textquoteright}s market model and protocol design; evaluate how MINT improves efficiency, the utility of edge networks, and the profits of transit networks; and how MINT can operate at Internet scale.},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30622},
	author = {Feamster, Nick and Hassan,U. and Sundaresan,S. and Valancius,V. and Johari,R. and Vazirani,V.}
}
