Investigating the deployment and adoption of re-ECN

Networking research aims to design protocols for future Internet architectures that are able to hold end hosts accountable for the congestion they cause. Re-ECN is a protocol that provides valuable information to ISPs about network congestion, and which could be used as a useful input to support the allocation of network resources more equitably. In this paper, we propose and apply an adoption framework for the re-ECN protocol. As well as the technical design aspects, we also focus on the high level challenges and opportunities for the key stakeholders and present potential deployment scenarios that might lead to the widespread adoption of re-ECN.