Nation-State Hegemony in Internet Routing

摘要: While the growth of Internet has fostered more efficient communications around world, there is a large digital divide between Western countries and rest world. Countries such as Brazil, China, Saudi Arabia have questioned criticized America's hegemony. This paper studies extent to which various rely on United States other connect popular destinations in those countries. Unfortunately, our measurements reveal that underserved regions are dependent North American European for two reasons: local content often hosted foreign (such Netherlands), networks within country fail peer with one another. Fortunately, we also find routing traffic through strategically placed relay nodes can some cases reduce number transnational detours by than factor two, subsequently reduces dependence regions. Based these findings, design implement Region-Aware Networking, RAN, lightweight system routes client's web specified no modifications client software (and many little performance overhead).