TY - GEN
T1 - Surrounded by the clouds
T2 - 2021 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2021
AU - Corneo, Lorenzo
AU - Eder, Maximilian
AU - Mohan, Nitinder
AU - Zavodovski, Aleksandr
AU - Bayhan, Suzan
AU - Wong, Walter
AU - Gunningberg, Per
AU - Kangasharju, Jussi
AU - Ott, JA¶rg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/4/19
Y1 - 2021/4/19
N2 - In the early days of cloud computing, datacenters were sparsely deployed at distant locations far from end-users with high end-to-end communication latency. However, today's cloud datacenters have become more geographically spread, the bandwidth of the networks keeps increasing, pushing the end-users latency down. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive cloud reachability study as we perform extensive global client-to-cloud latency measurements towards 189 datacenters from all major cloud providers. We leverage the well-known measurement platform RIPE Atlas, involving up to 8500 probes deployed in heterogeneous environments, e.g., home and offices. Our goal is to evaluate the suitability of modern cloud environments for various current and predicted applications. We achieve this by comparing our latency measurements against known human perception thresholds and are able to draw inferences on the suitability of current clouds for novel applications, such as augmented reality. Our results indicate that the current cloud coverage can easily support several latency-critical applications, like cloud gaming, for the majority of the world's population.
AB - In the early days of cloud computing, datacenters were sparsely deployed at distant locations far from end-users with high end-to-end communication latency. However, today's cloud datacenters have become more geographically spread, the bandwidth of the networks keeps increasing, pushing the end-users latency down. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive cloud reachability study as we perform extensive global client-to-cloud latency measurements towards 189 datacenters from all major cloud providers. We leverage the well-known measurement platform RIPE Atlas, involving up to 8500 probes deployed in heterogeneous environments, e.g., home and offices. Our goal is to evaluate the suitability of modern cloud environments for various current and predicted applications. We achieve this by comparing our latency measurements against known human perception thresholds and are able to draw inferences on the suitability of current clouds for novel applications, such as augmented reality. Our results indicate that the current cloud coverage can easily support several latency-critical applications, like cloud gaming, for the majority of the world's population.
KW - Cloud reachability
KW - Internet measurements
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107943969&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3442381.3449854
DO - 10.1145/3442381.3449854
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107943969
T3 - The Web Conference 2021 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2021
SP - 295
EP - 304
BT - The Web Conference 2021 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2021
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 19 April 2021 through 23 April 2021
ER -