Performance analysis and improvement of InfiniBand networks. Modelling and effective Quality-of-Service mechanisms for interconnection networks in cluster computing systems.

The InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) network has been proposed as a new industrial standard with high-bandwidth and low-latency suitable for constructing high-performance interconnected cluster computing systems. This architecture replaces the traditional bus-based interconnection with a switch-based network for the server Input-Output (I/O) and inter-processor communications. The efficient Quality-of-Service (QoS) mechanism is fundamental to ensure the import at QoS metrics, such as maximum throughput and minimum latency, leaving aside other aspects like guarantee to reduce the delay, blocking probability, and mean queue length, etc. Performance modelling and analysis has been and continues to be of great theoretical and practical importance in the design and development of communication networks. This thesis aims to investigate efficient and cost-effective QoS mechanisms for performance analysis and improvement of InfiniBand networks in cluster-based computing systems. Firstly, a rate-based source-response link-by-link admission and congestion control function with improved Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) packet marking scheme is developed. This function adopts the rate control to reduce congestion of multiple-class traffic. Secondly, a credit-based flow control scheme is presented to reduce the mean queue length, throughput and response time of the system. In order to evaluate the performance of this scheme, a new queueing network model is developed. Theoretical analysis and simulation experiments show that these two schemes are quite effective and suitable for InfiniBand networks. Finally, to obtain a thorough and deep understanding of the performance attributes of InfiniBand Architecture network, two efficient threshold function flow control mechanisms are proposed to enhance the QoS of InfiniBand networks; one is Entry Threshold that sets the threshold for each entry in the arbitration table, and other is Arrival Job Threshold that sets the threshold based on the number of jobs in each Virtual Lane. Furthermore, the principle of Maximum Entropy is adopted to analyse these two new mechanisms with the Generalized Exponential (GE)-Type distribution for modelling the inter-arrival times and service times of the input traffic. Extensive simulation experiments are conducted to validate the accuracy of the analytical models

InfiniBand-Based Mechanism to Enhance Multipath QoS in MANETs

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), the continuous changes in topology and the big amounts of data exchanged across the network makes it difficult for a single routing algorithm to route data efficiently between nodes. MANETs usually suffer from high packet loss rates and high link failure rates, which also makes it difficult to exchange data in effective and reliable fashion. These challenges usually increase congestion on some links while other links are almost free. In this thesis, we propose a novel mechanism to enhance QoS in multipath routing protocols in MANETs based on the InfiniBand (IB) QoS architecture. The basic idea of our approach is to enhance the path balancing to reduce congestion on overloaded links. This mechanism has enabled us to give critical applications higher priority to send them packet when routing their packets across the network, effectively manage frequent connections and disconnections and thus help reduce link failures and packet loss rates, and reduce the overall power consumption as a consequence of the previous gains. We have tested the scheme on the (IBMGTSim) simulator and achieved significant improvements in QoS parameters compared to two well-known routing protocols: AODV and AOMDV.هناك نوع من الشبكات حيث يكون كل المكونات فيها عبارة عن اجهزة متحركة بدون اي بنية تحتية تسمى "MANET "في هذا النوع من الشبكات تتعاون االجهزة ذاتيا لتحديد الطرق في ما بينها والنها متحركة تقوم هذه االجهزة بحساب اكثر من طريق عو ًضا عن حساب طريق واحد لتقليل من احتمالية فشل في االرسال حيث اذا تم فشل في طريق معينة تبقى الطرق االخرة سليمة. وفي ناحية اخرى ولتنوع اهمية البرامج والخدمات التي توفرها هذه االجهزة هناك ما يسمى "بجودى الخدمات Service of Quality" حيث يقوم المستخدم بوضع اولويات للبرامج والخدمات من استهالك المصادر المتاحة, والطريق الشائعة هي ان يقوم المستخدم بوضع حدود على سرعة استعمال الشبكة من قبل البرامج االقل اهمية لترك المصادر متاحة للبرامج الاكثر المهمة بشكل اكثر وهذا الحل يحتوي على الكثير من المشاكل في هذا النوع من الشبكات, حيث ان مواصفات الطرق غير معروفة وغير ثابتة وقد تحتوي او تتغير الى قيم اقل من الحدود الموضوعة للبرمج الغير مهمة فتتساوى البرامج والخدمات االقل اهمية بالبرامج االكثر اهمية مما يعني فشل في جودة الخدمات. من خالل بحثنا عن حلول ودراسة انواع مختلفة من الشبكات وجدنا نوع من تطبيق جودة الخدمات في نوع الشبكات المسمى بInfiniBand حيث يتم تطبيق جودة الخدمات من خالل تغيير عدد الرسال المبعثة من قبل البرامج, حيث تقوم االجهزة بارسال عدد اكبر من الرسال التابعة للبرامج المهمة مقارنة بعدد الرسال التابعة للبرامج االقل اهمية, ويتم ذلك باستخدام الصفوف, حيث تصطف الرسال من البرامج المهمة بصف يختلف عن الصف الذي يحتوي على رسال البرامج الغير مهمة. هذا الحل له فائدتان مهمتان االولى انه ال يوثر عالطريقة التقليدية ويمكن ان يستخدم معها والفائدة الثانية انه وبخالف الطريقة التقليدية, الطريقة الجديدة ال تتاثر بصفات الطريق المحسوبة او بتغير صفاتها فنسبة عدد الرسال تكون نفسها مهما اختلفت الطرق و صفاتها, بعد تطبيق هذا النوع وجددنا تحسين في كفائة االرسال تصل الى 18 %في جودة التوصيل و 10 %في سرعة الوصول مع العلم ان جودة الخدمات لم تفشل على غرار الطريقة التقليدية

An Analysis of QoS Provisioning for Sockets Direct Protocol Vs. IPoIB Over Modern InfiniBand Networks

The introduction of Quality of Service (QoS) features for socket-based communication over InfiniBand networks provides the opportunity to enact service differentiation for traditional socket-based applications over high performance networks for the first time. The effectiveness of such techniques in providing control over the quality of service that individual connections experience is important in managing traffic in modern data centers. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the performance benefits of QoS provisioning in InfiniBand networks for Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) and IPoIB. We find that QoS provisioning can provide prioritized service for sockets-based streams, with more apparent impact on SDP traffic than IPoIB. 1