Basit Dogar, Abdul, Ullah, Sami, Zhang, Yiran, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2024) Resilient TCP variant enabling smooth network updates for software-defined data center networks. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 29 (5). pp. 1615-1632. ISSN 1007-0214 (Online) (doi:10.26599/TST.2024.9010010)

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Abstract

Network updates have become increasingly prevalent since the broad adoption of software-defined networks (SDNs) in data centers. Modern TCP designs, including cutting-edge TCP variants DCTCP, CUBIC, and BBR, however, are not resilient to network updates that provoke flow rerouting. In this paper, we first demonstrate that popular TCP implementations perform inadequately in the presence of frequent and inconsistent network updates, because inconsistent and frequent network updates result in out-of-order packets and packet drops induced via transitory congestion and lead to serious performance deterioration. We look into the causes and propose a network update-friendly TCP (NUFTCP), which is an extension of the DCTCP variant, as a solution. Simulations are used to assess the proposed NUFTCP. Our findings reveal that NUFTCP can more effectively manage the problems of out-of-order packets and packet drops triggered in network updates, and it outperforms DCTCP considerably.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	software defined data center networks; network updates; DCTCP; out-of-order packets; packet drop; SDN
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences (CMS)
Related URLs:	Organisation
Last Modified:	10 Sep 2024 11:45
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47834

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