TY - GEN
T1 - Multipath-aware TCP for Data Center Traffic Load-balancing
AU - Xia, Yu
AU - Wu, Jinsong
AU - Xia, Jingwen
AU - Wang, Ting
AU - Mao, Sun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/6/25
Y1 - 2021/6/25
N2 - Traffic load-balancing is important to data center performance. However, existing data center load-balancing solutions are either limited to simple topologies or cannot provide satisfactory performance. In this paper, we propose a multipath-aware TCP (MA-TCP) which can sense the path migration of TCP flows. With this new mechanism, the reduction in TCP congestion window due to packet reordering during the path migration can be avoided. This, in turn, makes the path migration more timely as soon as the original path is congested. Furthermore, if the new path is congested (again), the flow can securely continue to migrate without worrying about transmitting rate reduction. Through NS-3 simulations, we show that MA-TCP achieves better flow completion time (FCT) than existing data center load-balancing solutions.
AB - Traffic load-balancing is important to data center performance. However, existing data center load-balancing solutions are either limited to simple topologies or cannot provide satisfactory performance. In this paper, we propose a multipath-aware TCP (MA-TCP) which can sense the path migration of TCP flows. With this new mechanism, the reduction in TCP congestion window due to packet reordering during the path migration can be avoided. This, in turn, makes the path migration more timely as soon as the original path is congested. Furthermore, if the new path is congested (again), the flow can securely continue to migrate without worrying about transmitting rate reduction. Through NS-3 simulations, we show that MA-TCP achieves better flow completion time (FCT) than existing data center load-balancing solutions.
KW - TCP
KW - data center
KW - load-balancing
KW - multipath
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85115428059
U2 - 10.1109/IWQOS52092.2021.9521276
DO - 10.1109/IWQOS52092.2021.9521276
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85115428059
T3 - 2021 IEEE/ACM 29th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQOS 2021
BT - 2021 IEEE/ACM 29th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQOS 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 29th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQOS 2021
Y2 - 25 June 2021 through 28 June 2021
ER -