1. PRESENTED BY:
BIDISHA BISWAS
FALL 2016 – ISQA-8310-002 DATA COMMUNICATIONS
Net Neutrality

2. CONTENTS
 What is net neutrality?
 Birth and Development of Net neutrality
 Reasons for net neutrality
 Design
 Net neutrality vs mobile networks
 FCC’s 2014 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
 Evolution of mobile networks and their effect on net neutrality
 Consumer Exploitation
 Challenges
 Examples
 Conclusion

4. WHAT IS NET NEUTRALITY?
 Internet Freedom
 Equality of
(a) Contents
(b) Sites
(c) Applications
(d) Communications
Net Neutrality is the name of the movement to keep the Internet “free and open”.

5. BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NET NEUTRALITY
 First coined by Columbia university law professor Tim Wu in 2003 in his seminal paper
“Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination.”
 This paper evaluated neutrality between applications, different types of data and traffic at
the network infrastructure level
 The idea has been developing gradually ever since, and its appropriation by numerous actors
with divergent goals has made net neutrality polysemic

6. REASONS FOR NET NEUTRALITY
 No discrimination
 Free expression
 Privacy
 Access to Information
 Democratic process
 Tool against censorship
 Consumer choice
 Innovation and competition
 Protecting a global Internet

7. DESIGN
Goal
ISP should not discriminate packets
Techniques
(a) End-to-end encryption
(b) Neutralizer installation: Hide the IP
address

8. S (source) KM (neutralizer) KS = hash ( nonce, KM, sourceIP)
Encryption (neutralizer)
Decryption of packet (src)
Encrypt destination address (src)
Source sends nonce in cleartext to neutralizerKS = hash ( new nonce, KM,sourceIP)
KEY SETUP BETWEEN SOURCE AND NEUTRALIZER

9. Symmetric key
Generation
Exchange Addresses

10. PROBLEMS WITH THE DESIGN
 Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
 Packet discrimination
 Good-intentioned discrimination

11. USER DRIVEN APPROACH

12. WORKFLOW OF COOKIE ENABLED DEVICE

13. BOOST

14. NET NEUTRALITY VS MOBILE NETWORKS
Equal Access to internet on equal terms. Is that possible?

15. FCC’S 2014 NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING (NPRM)
 Transparency Rule
 No Blocking rule
 Anti Discrimination rule

16. EVOLUTION OF MOBILE NETWORKS

17. WHAT IS LTE?

18. LTE (LONG TERM EVOLUTION)
 Long term Evolution (LTE) is a standard for high speed communication for mobile
networks.
 It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the
capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network
improvements.
 LTE is registered trademark owned by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standard
Institute) for the wireless data communication.

19. HOW DOES NET NEUTRALITY AFFECT MOBILE NETWOKS?

20. CONSUMER EXPLOITATION
 Force to used certain services
 Block all Peer to Peer Technologies
 “Exclusive” Deals with content providers.
 Monitor all the online activity.

21. ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF NET NEUTRALITY
 Control of Data
 Digital rights and freedom
 User intolerance for slow loading sites
 Competition and Innovation
 Preserving internet standards
 End to end principle

22. ARGUMENTS AGAINST NET NEUTRALITY
 Reduction in Innovation and Investments
 Counterweight to server side non-neutrality
 Broadband infrastructure
 Significant and growing competition
 Broadband choice
 Deterring Competition
 Potentially Increased taxes
 High costs to entry for cable broadband
 Unnecessary regulations

23. EXAMPLES
 MADISON RIVER
 COMCAST
 AT&T
 WINDSTREAM
 VERIZON

24. CONCLUSION

25. REFERENCES
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#Definition_and_related_principles
http://leftwardthinking.com/learning-example-net-neutrality-violations/
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26. THANK YOU