Paper Info
Title
A Simple Multipath OpenFlow Controller using topology-based algorithm for Multipath TCP
Abstract
Multipath TCP, or MPTCP, is a widely-researched mechanism that allows a single application-level connection to be split to more than one TCP stream, and consequently more than one network interface, as opposed to the traditional TCP/IP model. Being a transport layer protocol, MPTCP can easily interact between the application using it and the network supporting it. However, MPTCP does not have control of its own route. Default IP routing behavior generally takes all traffic through the shortest or best-metric path. However, this behavior may actually cause paths to collide with each other, creating contention for bandwidth in a number of edges. This can result in a bottleneck which limits the throughput of the network. Therefore, a multipath routing mechanism is necessary to ensure smooth operation of MPTCP. We created smoc, a Simple Multipath OpenFlow Controller, that uses only topology information of the network to avoid collision where possible. Evaluation of smoc in a virtual local-area and a physical wide-area SDNs showed favorable results as smoc provided better performance than simple or spanning-tree routing mechanisms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.6084/m9.figshare.1558361
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Field
DocType
Volume
Multipath propagation,Bottleneck,Multipath routing,Computer science,Multipath TCP,Computer network,Transport layer,OpenFlow,Throughput,Network interface,Distributed computing
Journal
abs/1509.08388
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
13
1
0.36
References 
Authors
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
nakasan chawanat110.36
Kohei Ichikawa26919.79
Hajimu Iida328631.95
Putchong Uthayopas411114.77