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Title: Advances in Reliable File-Stream Multicasting over Multi-Domain Software Defined Networks (SDN)
In prior work, we proposed a cross-layer architecture called Multicast-Push Unicast-Pull (MPUP) for Software Defined Networks (SDN) to support a reliable file-stream multicast application. In this work, we improved the algorithms used to set parameters: transport-layer sender retransmission timer, VLAN rate (which is also the sending rate) and sender-buffer size. Experimental evaluation using feeds with metadata collected from real meteorology file streams was conducted. A significant finding is that the throughput achieved is smaller than the VLAN/sending rate even though file blocks are multicast continuously in UDP datagrams. Sender-buffer waiting times and propagation delays are the main reasons for the degraded throughput. For example, increasing the VLAN rate from 20 Mbps to 500 Mbps, reduced the degradation from 90% to 45%. However, the degradation increased from 45% to 58% when the VLAN rate was increased from 500 Mbps to 1 Gbps. We found an increase in the number of block retransmissions at the higher rates, which explains this increased degradation. Increasing RTT from 0.1 ms to 100 ms caused throughput to drop from 274.8 Mbps to 27.6 Mbps on a 500 Mbps VLAN. If transmission delay was a significant component in total latency, then throughput degradation relative to VLAN rate would be small; however, the meteorology file-streams used in our study have small-sized data products. Due to bandwidth borrowing between VLAN and IP-routed services, VLAN utilization is not important, and hence we recommend using the smallest rate at which sender-buffer waiting times are insignificant.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1659174
PAR ID:
10144203
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2019 28th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 11
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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