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- Eklund, Johan, 1966-
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Latency Reduction for Soft Real-Time Traffic using SCTP Multihoming
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- More and more so-called soft real-time traffic is being sent over IP-based networks. The bursty, data-limited traffic pattern as well as the latency requirements from this traffic present challenges to the traditional communication techniques, designed for bulk traffic without considering latency.To meet the requirements from soft real-time traffic, in particular from telephony signaling, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was designed. Its support for connectivity to multiple networks, i.e., multihoming, provides robustness and opens up for concurrent multipath transfer (CMT) over multiple paths. Since SCTP is a general transport protocol, it also enables for handover of media sessions between heterogeneous networks. Migrating an ongoing session to a new network, as well as CMT with minimal latency, requires tuning of several protocol parameters and mechanisms.This thesis addresses latency reduction for soft real-time traffic using SCTP multihoming from three perspectives. The first focus is on latency for signaling traffic in case of path failure, where a path switch, a failover, occurs. We regard quick failure detection as well as rapid startup on the failover target path. The results indicate that by careful parameter tuning, the failover time may be significantly reduced. The second focus in the thesis is on latency for signaling traffic using CMT. To this end, we address sender-side scheduling. We evaluate some existing schedulers, and design a dynamic stream-aware scheduler. The results indicate that the dynamic stream-aware scheduler may provide significantly improved latency in unbalanced networks. Finally, we target multihomed SCTP to provide for handover of a media session between heterogeneous wireless networks in a mobile scenario. We implement a handover scheme and our investigation shows that SCTP could provide for seamless handover of a media session at walking speed.
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- Grinnemo, Karl-Johan, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Deliverable D3.3 - Extended Transport System and Transparent Support of Non-NEAT Applications
- 2017
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- This deliverable summarises and concludes our work in Work Package 3 (WP3) to extend the transport services provided by the NEAT System developed in Work Package 2, and to enable non-NEAT applications to harness the transport services offered by NEAT. We have demonstrated how a policy- and information-based selection of transport protocol by NEAT could provide a more efficient transport service for web applications. The information on which NEAT makes its transport selection decisions resides in the Characteristics Information Base (CIB). The CIB is populated by various CIB sources, and in WP3 we have designed, implemented, and evaluated various CIB sources, including meta data from mobile broadband networks, passive measurements, IPv6 Provisioning Domain protocols and the Happy Eyeballs mechanism, which caches the outcome of its connection attempts. A key property of NEAT is that it not only “vertically” decouples applications from transport protocols, but also “horizontally”. Particularly, it enables applications to harness information about resource availability and policies from Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers in managed networks, without these applications actually being SDN-aware. To extend the use of NEAT to non-NEAT applications, we have implemented a BSDcompatible sockets API on top of NEAT and a NEAT proxy that intercepts and replaces standard TCP connections with NEAT flows, i.e., with the transport solutions deemed most appropriate by NEAT.We have also proposed a way for non-NEAT applications to make use of NEAT through the deployment of NEAT-enabled virtual appliances in SDN-controlled networks: connections from these applications are routed via an SDN-controlled proxy that terminates the original connection and replaces it with a NEAT-selected connection.
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- Rajiullah, Mohammad
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Performance Analysis and Improvement of PR-SCTP in an Event Logging Context
- 2012
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Due to certain shortcomings in TCP and UDP, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was defined for transporting telephony signaling traffic. The partially reliable extension of SCTP, PR-SCTP, has been considered as a candidate for prioritizing content sensitive traffic and trading reliability against timeliness for applications with soft real time requirements. In this thesis, we investigate the applicability of PR-SCTP for event logging applications. Event logs are inherently prioritized. This makes PR-SCTP a promising candidate for transporting event logs. However, the performance gain of PR-SCTP can be very limited when application message sizes are small and messages have mixed reliability requirements. Several factors influence PR-SCTP’s performance. One key factor is the inefficiency in the forward_tsn mechanism of PR-SCTP. We examine the inefficiency in detail and propose several solutions. Moreover, we implement and evaluate one solution that utilizes the Non-Renegable Selective Acknowledgements (NR-SACKs) mechanism currently being standardized in the IETF, which is available in the FreeBSD operating system. Our results show a significant performance gain for PR-SCTP with NR-SACKs. In some scenarios, the average message transfer delay is reduced by more than 75%. Moreover, we evaluate NR-SACK based PR-SCTP using real traces from an event logging application called syslog. It significantly improves the syslog application performance as compared to SCTP, TCP and UDP.
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- Weinrank, Felix, et al.
(författare)
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A NEAT Way to Browse the Web
- 2017
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Ingår i: Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2017, Prague, Czech Republic, July 15, 2017.. - New York, NY, USA : Thomas Dreibholz.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a growing concern that the Internet transport layer has become ossified in the face of emerging novel applications, and that further evolution has become very difficult. The NEAT system is a novel and evolvable transport system that decouples applications from the underlying transport layer and network services. In so doing, it facilitates dynamic transport selection. This demo shows how the NEAT system is able to dynamically select the most appropriate transport solution for the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
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- Yedugundla, Venkata Kiran, et al.
(författare)
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Is Multi-Path Transport Suitable for Latency Sensitive Traffic?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Computer Networks. - : Elsevier. - 1389-1286 .- 1872-7069. ; 105, s. 1-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper assesses whether multi-path communication can help latency-sensitive applications to satisfy the requirements of their users. We consider Concurrent Multi-path Transfer for SCTP (CMT-SCTP) and Multi-path TCP (MPTCP) and evaluate their proficiency in transporting video, gaming, and web traffic over combinations of WLAN and 3G interfaces. To ensure the validity of our evaluation, several experimental approaches were used including simulation, emulation and live experiments. When paths are symmetric in terms of capacity, delay and loss rate, we find that the experienced latency is significantly reduced, compared to using a single path. Using multiple asymmetric paths does not affect latency - applications do not experience any increase or decrease, but might benefit from other advantages of multi-path communication. In the light of our conclusions, multi-path transport is suitable for latency-sensitive traffic and mature enough to be widely deployed.
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