Investigating the Performance of Link Aggregation on OpenFlow Switches

Nguyen-Duc, Toan; Tran-Viet, Hoang; Nguyen, Kien; Minh, Quang Tran; Ngo, Son Hong; Yamada, Shigeki

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13326-3_19

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“…Year Algorithm and Protocol Network Environment Re-sequence Header MP [185] 1996 WRR ISDN Yes strIPe [9,72] 1996, 1999 FLSA, FQA General Support LQB [186] 1999 WRR WWANs Yes LACP [2,87] 2000, 2008 PCA Ethernet No FatVAP [94] 2008 PFA WAPs No SPB IEEE802.1aq [56] 2012 PFA, ECT Ethernet No TRILL [50] 2014 PFA, ECMP General No OpenFlow [134,188] 2014, 2015 PCA Ethernet, data center No (RSH) for synchronization and detecting lost fragments at the receiver. Therefore, a reorder buffer is required at the receiver to accommodate the out-of-order fragments caused by link aggregation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Using LACP for exchanging dynamic information between LAsupported devices, the OpenFlow controller has full control over the switches on how frames are distributed and collected on multiple links. Nguyen-Duc et al [134] investigated the operation of LA in OpenFlow switches and found that LACP on OpenFlow switch provides a slightly lower throughput than the one on a conventional switch. Thus, OpenFlow switches need to be further optimized to achieve equivalent performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Aggregated bandwidth is achieved by using all the available paths simultaneously. To avoid the outof-order delivery issue due to using all available paths, a PCA style scheduling algorithm is used in [134,188]. Specifically, the algorithm excludes the paths whose path length exceeds the shortest path length significantly.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multi-Link PPP (MP) [185,186], strIPe [9,72], FatVAP [94], IEEE 802.1AX-2008 [2], EtherChannel [32], Aggregated Ethernet [93], Multi-Link Trunking [15], IEEE 802.1AX-2008 [2], OpenFlow [134,188], IEEE 802.1aq [3], TRILL [50], SPB [56]…”

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“…The first group includes PCA [2,87,134,188], PFA [50,56,66,68,69,70,94,110,126,150,166], and Multistreaming [49]. They are the most effective mechanisms which can completely eliminate packet reordering incurred by multipath transmission because the data units required sequencing at the destination are assigned only to the same path.…”

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Smart devices equipped with multiple network interfaces are becoming commonplace. Nevertheless, even though multiple interfaces can be used to connect to the Internet, their capabilities have not been fully utilized yet because the default TCP/IP stack supports only a single interface for communication. This situation is now changing due to the emergence of multipath protocols on different network stack layers. For example, many IP level approaches have been proposed utilizing tunneling mechanisms for hiding multipath transmission from the transport protocols. Several working groups under IEEE and IETF are actively standardizing multipath transmission on the link layer and transport layer. Application level approaches enable multipath transmission capability by establishing multiple transport connections and distributing data over them. Given all these efforts, it is beneficial and timely to summarize the state-of-the-art, compare their pros and cons, and discuss about the future directions. To that end, we present a survey on multipath transmission and make several major contributions: (1) we present a complete taxonomy pertaining to multipath transmission, including link, network, transport, application and cross layers; (2) we survey the state-of-the-art for each layer, investigate the problems that each layer aims to address, and make comprehensive assessment of the solutions; (3) based on the comparison, we identify open issues and pinpoint future directions for multipath transmission research.

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