Performance Analysis and Improvement of PR-SCTP for Small Messages

• PR-SCTP, a partially reliable extension of SCTP, provides a flexible QoS trade-off between timeliness and reliability for application traffic. However, the performance of PR-SCTP can be reduced due to certain traffic characteristics and network scenarios. Previously, we proposed a NR-SACK based optimization for PR-SCTP. In this work we extensively evaluate and analyze the performance of PR-SCTP with NR-SACKs using different network scenarios. Moreover, we compare the performance of our NR-SACK based PR-SCTP with existing transport protocols for syslog traffic. In the evaluation, we use real syslog traces from an operational syslog system. The results indicate that NR-SACKs based PR-SCTP significantly improves the overall message transfer delay as compared to SCTP and TCP.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

SCTP

PR-SCTP

NR-SACKs

event logging

performance evaluation

Computer Science

Datavetenskap

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