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SDN based testbeds for evaluating and promoting multipath TCP
Multipath TCP is an experimental transport proto-
col with remarkable recent past and non-negligible future poten-
tial. It has been standardized recently, however the evaluation
studies focus only on a limited set of isolated use-cases and
a comprehensive analysis or a feasible path of Internet-wide
adoption is still missing. This is mostly because in the current
networking practice it is unusual to configure multiple paths
between the endpoints of a connection. Therefore, conducting and
precisely controlling multipath experiments over the real “inter-
net” is a challenging task for some experimenters and impossible
for others. In this paper, we invoke SDN technology to make
this control possible and exploit large-scale internet testbeds to
conduct end-to-end MPTCP experiments. More specifically, we
establish a special purpose control and measurement framework
on top of two distinct internet testbeds. First, using the OpenFlow
support of GÉANT, we build a testbed enabling measurements
with real traffic. Second, we design and establish a publicly
available large-scale multipath capable measurement framework
on top of PlanetLab Europe and show the challenges of such
a system. Furthermore, we present measurements results with
MPTCP in both testbeds to get insight into its behavior in such
not well explored environment
De-ossifying the Internet Transport Layer : A Survey and Future Perspectives
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Evaluating modern data centre transport protocols in OMNeT++/INET
In this paper we present our work towards an evaluation platform for data centre transport protocols. We developed a simulation model for NDP1, a modern data transport protocol in data centres, a FatTree network topology and per-packet ECMP load balancing. We also developed a data centre environment that can be used to evaluate and compare data transport protocols, such as NDP and TCP. We describe how we integrated our model with the INET Framework and present example simulations to showcase the workings of the developed framework. For that, we ran a comprehensive set of experiments and studied different components and parameters of the developed models
Source-specific routing
Source-specific routing (not to be confused with source routing) is a routing
technique where routing decisions depend on both the source and the destination
address of a packet. Source-specific routing solves some difficult problems
related to multihoming, notably in edge networks, and is therefore a useful
addition to the multihoming toolbox. In this paper, we describe the semantics
of source-specific packet forwarding, and describe the design and
implementation of a source-specific extension to the Babel routing protocol as
well as its implementation - to our knowledge, the first complete
implementation of a source-specific dynamic routing protocol, including a
disambiguation algorithm that makes our implementation work over widely
available networking APIs. We further discuss interoperability between ordinary
next-hop and source-specific dynamic routing protocols. Our implementation has
seen a moderate amount of deployment, notably as a testbed for the IETF Homenet
working group
Multipath TCP in ns-3
In this paper we present our work on designing and implementing an NS3 model for MultiPath TCP (MPTCP). Our MPTCP model closely follows MPTCP specifications, as described in RFC 6824, and supports TCP NewReno loss recovery on a per subflow basis. Subflow management is based on MPTCP's kernel implementation. We briefly describe how we integrate our MPTCP model with NS3 and present example simulation results to showcase its working state
A First Look at QUIC in the Wild
For the first time since the establishment of TCP and UDP, the Internet
transport layer is subject to a major change by the introduction of QUIC.
Initiated by Google in 2012, QUIC provides a reliable, connection-oriented
low-latency and fully encrypted transport. In this paper, we provide the first
broad assessment of QUIC usage in the wild. We monitor the entire IPv4 address
space since August 2016 and about 46% of the DNS namespace to detected
QUIC-capable infrastructures. Our scans show that the number of QUIC-capable
IPs has more than tripled since then to over 617.59 K. We find around 161K
domains hosted on QUIC-enabled infrastructure, but only 15K of them present
valid certificates over QUIC. Second, we analyze one year of traffic traces
provided by MAWI, one day of a major European tier-1 ISP and from a large IXP
to understand the dominance of QUIC in the Internet traffic mix. We find QUIC
to account for 2.6% to 9.1% of the current Internet traffic, depending on the
vantage point. This share is dominated by Google pushing up to 42.1% of its
traffic via QUIC
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