@inproceedings {Ede2015a,
	title = {Towards a Middlebox Policy Taxonomy: Path Impairments},
	booktitle = {International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom)},
	year = {2015},
	month = {04/2015},
	abstract = {<p>Recent years have seen the rise of middleboxes, such as firewalls, NATs, proxies,\&nbsp;or Deep Packet Inspectors. Those middleboxes play an important role in today{\textquoteright}s\&nbsp;Internet, including enterprise networks and cellular networks. However, despite\&nbsp;their huge success in modern network architecture, they have a negative impact\&nbsp;on the Internet evolution as they can slow down the TCP protocol evolution and its\&nbsp;extensions. Making available a summary of the potential middlebox network\&nbsp;interferences is of the highest importance as it could allow researchers to\&nbsp;confront their new transport protocol to potential issues caused by middleboxes.\&nbsp;And, consequently, allowing again innovation in the Internet.</p><p>This is exactly what we tackle in this paper. We propose a path impairment\&nbsp;oriented middlebox taxonomy that aims at categorizing the initial purpose of a\&nbsp;middlebox policy as well as its potential unexpected complications. Based on a\&nbsp;measurement campaign on IPv4 and IPv6 networks, we confront our taxonomy to the\&nbsp;real world. Our dataset is freely available.</p>},
	keywords = {classification, IPv6, middleboxes, path impairment, tracebox},
	author = {Korian Edeline and Benoit Donnet}
}
