Title
A Framework for Qualitative Communications Using Big Packet Protocol.
Abstract
In the current Internet architecture, a packet is a minimal or fundamental unit upon which different actions such as classification, forwarding, or discarding are performed by the network nodes. When faced with constrained or poor network conditions, a packet is subjected to undesirable drops and re-transmissions, resulting in unpredictable delays and subsequent traffic overheads in the network. Alternately, we introduce qualitative communication services which allow partial, yet timely, delivery of a packet instead of dropping it entirely. These services allow breaking down packet payloads into smaller units (called chunks), enabling much finer granularity of bandwidth utilization. We propose Packet Wash as anew operation in forwarding nodes to support qualitative services. Upon packet error or network congestion, the forwarding node selectively removes some chunk(s) from the payload based on the relationship among the chunks or the individual signiicance level of each chunk. We also present a qualitative communication framework as well as a Packet Wash directive implemented in a newly evolved data plane technology, called Big Packet Protocol (BPP).
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3341558.3342201
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Workshop on Networking for Emerging Applications and Technologies
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Big Packet Protocol, Packet Wash, Qualitative Communication Services
Conference
abs/1906.10766
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6876-6
6
0.61
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Richard Li14110.00
Kiran Makhijani2295.35
Hamed Yousefi392.08
Cédric Westphal460.61
L Dong521030.65
Tim Wauters628143.30
Filip De Turck72770297.38