Net Neutrality and its Implications to Online Learning

Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering

Net Neutrality Language Analysis

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been seeking public comments about net neutrality. It is found that a great majority of these comments were written from format letters potentially provided by several campaign groups. Principle Components Analysis (PCA) was first used to visualize the data set and it is found that the data are obviously clustered. Based on this fact, several clas...

A Technical Approach to Net Neutrality

A recent statement by AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre sparked considerable fear in the public that the Internet may not be open any more: the ISPs dictate which sites/applications flourish and which flounder. The statement triggered the heated debate on net neutrality and ignited the battle to enact net neutrality legislation. However, by the date of writing, all attempts to pass net neutrality laws have ...

The delusions of net neutrality

Service providers argue that if net neutrality is not enforced, they will have sufficient incentives to build special high-quality channels that will take the Internet to the next level of its evolution. But what if they do get their wish, net neutrality is consigned to the dustbin, and they do build their new services, but nobody uses them? If the networks that are built are the ones that are ...

Net neutrality and inflation of traffic

Under strict net neutrality Internet service providers (ISPs) are required to carry data without any differentiation and at no cost to the content provider. We provide a simple framework with a monopoly ISP to evaluate different net neutrality rules. Content differs in its sensitivity to delay. Content providers can use congestion control techniques to reduce delay for their content, but do not...