Aggregation Loss Bandwidth in the Last Mile Residential Internet

Aggregation Loss Bandwidth (ALB) within the last mile internet accounts for significant unusable bandwidth under current Internet Service Provider (ISP) centric routing strategies. Using a Hierarchical Network Topographical Routing (HNTR) scheme we show that this ALB can be exposed to the network and applications. A video streaming system is used as a case study to show the potential efficiency and monetary gains that can be made from exploiting this resource with minimal changes to the existing network infrastructure. This paper demonstrates the massive unused potential of the last mile Internet for video streaming services if a distributed management and billing architecture is introduced to the traditional Internet model.