Paper Info
Title
Improve MPTCP with SDN: From the perspective of resource pooling
Abstract
Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is proposed by IETF to support concurrent multipath transmission between multihomed hosts. Resource pooling principle, which treats network as a single pooled resource, is applied in the design of MPTCP schemes, and provides guidelines for MPTCP's control to achieve resource utilization and fair resource allocation. However, randomized routing solution and load balancing without global network information in MPTCP have become obstacles to achieve these objectives, which is validated through our measurements. To address above problems, we propose S-MPTCP, which realizes coupling control to MPTCP connections in network based on SDN technology providing global network information. Leveraging collected topology information, a key parameter, expected throughput, is calculated for each subflow ensuring the efficiency and fairness in resource exploration and allocation, and according to it, routing and load balancing modules are improved. Under S-MPTCP's control, subflow's throughput will stabilize around its expected throughput, and meanwhile congestion can be alleviated effectively. Experimental results show that S-MPTCP achieves significant enhancement of bandwidth utilization and fair resource allocation, and the time needed for load balancing is shortened considerably.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.jnca.2019.05.015
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multipath TCP,Software defined network,Resource pooling
Multihoming,Global network,Computer science,Load balancing (computing),Multipath TCP,Pooling,Computer network,Resource allocation,Throughput,Bandwidth utilization,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
141
1084-8045
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanbing Liu115516.38
Xiaowei Qin23511.68
Ting Zhu330820.81
Xiaohui Chen4176.23
Guo Wei57018.74