b'@online{Bhattacherjee_arXiv1809.10897,'b"\nTITLE = {{cISP}: {A} Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider},\nAUTHOR = {Bhattacherjee, Debopam and Jyothi, Sangeetha Abdu and Bozkurt, Ilker Nadi and Tirmazi, Muhammad and Aqeel, Waqar and Aguirre, Anthony and Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan and Godfrey, P. Brighten and Laughlin, Gregory P. and Maggs, Bruce M. and Singla, Ankit},\nLANGUAGE = {eng},\nURL = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10897},\nEPRINT = {1809.10897},\nEPRINTTYPE = {arXiv},\nYEAR = {2018},\nABSTRACT = {Low latency is a requirement for a variety of interactive network<br>applications. The Internet, however, is not optimized for latency. We thus<br>explore the design of cost-effective wide-area networks that move data over<br>paths very close to great-circle paths, at speeds very close to the speed of<br>light in vacuum. Our cISP design augments the Internet's fiber with free-space<br>wireless connectivity. cISP addresses the fundamental challenge of<br>simultaneously providing low latency and scalable bandwidth, while accounting<br>for numerous practical factors ranging from transmission tower availability to<br>packet queuing. We show that instantiations of cISP across the contiguous<br>United States and Europe would achieve mean latencies within 5% of that<br>achievable using great-circle paths at the speed of light, over medium and long<br>distances. Further, we estimate that the economic value from such networks<br>would substantially exceed their expense.<br>},\n}\n"