Fast Coupled Retransmission for Multipath TCP in Data Center Networks

Hwang, Jaehyun; Walid, Anwar; Yoo, Joon

doi:10.1109/jsyst.2016.2582527

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“…When a failure occurred on Path B from the 30th s, it caused back-to-back timeouts on Path B (see Figure 4; the cwnd size on Path B was always set to one after 30 s). As in the failure case, the MPTCP sender tried to transmit data after each of these timeouts on Path B (namely, unnecessary retransmission via the failure path [27]). The resulting receiver buffer blocking in MPTCP, with a great number of out-of-order data (see Figure 5) held in the constrained receiver buffer, prevented the efficient use of Path A for data transmission and resulted in serious throughput performance degradations.…”

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Towards Adaptive Multipath Managing: A Lightweight Path Management Mechanism to Aid Multihomed Mobile Computing Devices

Cao

Collotta

et al. 2020

Applied Sciences

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With the large scale deployment of multihomed mobile computing devices in today’s Internet, the Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is being considered as a preferred data transmission technology in the future Internet due to its promising features of bandwidth aggregation and multipath transmission. However, MPTCP is more likely to be vulnerable to the transmission quality differences of multiple paths, which cause a “hot-potato” out-of-order arrival of packets at the receiver side, and in the absence of a related approach to fix this issue, serious application level performance degradations will occur. In this paper, we proposes MPTCP-LM 3 , a Lightweight path Management Mechanism to aid Multihomed MPTCP based mobile computing devices towards efficient multipath data transmission. The goals of MPTCP-LM 3 are: (i) to offer MPTCP a promising path management mechanism, (ii) to reduce out-of-order data reception and protect against receiver buffer blocking, and (iii) to increase the throughput of mobile computing devices in a multihomed wireless environment. Simulations show that MPTCP-LM 3 outperforms the current MPTCP schemes in terms of performance and quality of service.

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Towards Adaptive Multipath Managing: A Lightweight Path Management Mechanism to Aid Multihomed Mobile Computing Devices

Cao

Collotta

et al. 2020

Applied Sciences

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“…However, The regular MPTCP usually does not handle short flows in data center networks effectively because of the long delay from excessive timeouts. In [24] and [18], two methods were presented to overcome this limitation in standard MPTCP. The first one proposed Maximum MultiPath TCP (MMPTCP), which operates in two phases.…”

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“…MPTCP utilizes multiple interfaces in two communicating peers to establish simultaneous sub-connection paths between the two. It can utilize full bisection bandwidth in topologies like dual-homed FatTree and BCube by creating multiple subflows between two servers [18]. In Amazon's EC2 data centers, MPTCP with four Figure 2: SDN network compared to traditional network [30] subflows achieves three times the throughput of a single-path TCP (SPTCP) [32].…”

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Utilizing SDN to Deliver Maximum TCP Flow for Data Centers

Saeed

Alenazi

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 the 3rd International Conference on Information Science and System

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Data centers host tens of thousands of interconnected servers, and they need to move a vast amount of data from one server to another for mirroring and backup purposes. Many new network technologies have been used to provide high throughput for bulk transfers of data in data centers. One of the evolving structures is the softwaredefined network (SDN), which is a new network paradigm that eases network management by separating the control plane from the data plane. In this paper, we introduce a novel method of utilizing traditional TCP and SDN to deliver maximum flow throughput. We also discuss our evaluation of our new method, MaxFlowTCP, against StandardTCP, ParallelTCP, and MPTCP. The results show that MaxFlowTCP provides higher throughput for the tested topology. Compared to StandardTCP, MaxFlowTCP had 130% better throughput, and compared to ParallelTCP and MPTCP, it had an average of 40% more throughput. CCS CONCEPTS • Networks → Programmable networks; Data center networks.

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“…Nowadays, there are a lot of researchers paying attention to retransmission mechanism. Hwang et al [10] designed a fast coupled retransmission mechanism for MPTCP, call TastCoRe, to quickly retransmit data through the other non-congested available path. Shen et al [11] presented an improved retransmission policy (RTX-CR), which chooses the retransmission path by considering congestion window and RTT for reducing rbuf blocking.…”

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“…Unfortunately, the regular MPTCP employs a conservative retransmission mechanism, which retransmits packets in the same path, to transfer retransmission packets. Only when retransmission timeout, it selects another path to transfer resulting in the failure of a packet arriving at the receiver timely [10]. Furthermore, multiple retransmission timeout will lead to out‐of‐order packets arrival problem.…”

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Performance evaluation of secure multipath retransmission mechanism in next generation heterogeneous communication systems

Zeng

Cao

et al. 2018

IET Networks

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With the standardisation of the fifth generation (5G) wireless network interface was established in 3GPP, the features of 5G arouse great interest both in academics and industry, even government. The significant advancements of 5G wireless network technology will make a great increase in the demand for content-rich streaming media services. What's more, many mobile devices with heterogeneous network interfaces (4G, WiFi, and even 5G) connect multiple paths for data delivery simultaneously. Multiple Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) is recommended by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to multi-path parallel transmission, which is an important transport layer protocol. Although there are many attractive benefits by using MPTCP for data delivery, it becomes sensitive for MPTCP to network attacks. When a subflow with the MPTCP association suffers from some network attacks (e.g. denial of service attacks), there is undoubted that it will cause large numbers of retransmission data. Unfortunately, the regular MPTCP retransmission mechanisms retransmit data over the same path, which may cause receiver buffer blocking. In this study, the authors propose effective retransmission mechanisms in MPTCP for retransmitting data on a non-congested path. The simulation results show that the proposed retransmission mechanism has better performance than the regular' in the network attacks.

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Fast Coupled Retransmission for Multipath TCP in Data Center Networks

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Towards Adaptive Multipath Managing: A Lightweight Path Management Mechanism to Aid Multihomed Mobile Computing Devices

Towards Adaptive Multipath Managing: A Lightweight Path Management Mechanism to Aid Multihomed Mobile Computing Devices

Utilizing SDN to Deliver Maximum TCP Flow for Data Centers

Performance evaluation of secure multipath retransmission mechanism in next generation heterogeneous communication systems

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