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2013

TCP Incast Avoidance Based on Connection Serialization in Data Center Networks

2013 19TH ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (APCC): SMART COMMUNICATIONS TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE
  • Shigeyuki Osada
  • ,
  • Kazutoshi Kajita
  • ,
  • Yukinobu Fukushima
  • ,
  • Tokumi Yokohira

First page
142
Last page
147
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1109/APCC.2013.6765931
Publisher
IEEE

In distributed file systems, a well-known congestion collapse called TCP Incast occurs because many servers send data to the same client and then many packets overflow the port buffer of the client link. Incast leads to throughput degradation in the network. In this paper, we propose two methods to avoid Incast based on the fact that only one connection can almost fully use the network bandwidth because the bandwidth-delay product is not so large in current data center networks. The first method is a method which completely serializes connection establishments. By the serialization, the number of packets in the port buffer becomes very small, which leads to Incast avoidance. The second method is a method which overlaps the slow start period of the next connection to the current established connection to improve throughput in the first method. Numerical results from extensive simulation runs show the effectiveness of our two proposed methods.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/APCC.2013.6765931
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000342624700026&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1109/APCC.2013.6765931
  • ISSN : 2163-0771
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000342624700026

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