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Resilient TCP variant enabling smooth network updates for software defined data center networks

Resilient TCP variant enabling smooth network updates for software defined data center networks
Resilient TCP variant enabling smooth network updates for software defined data center networks
Network updates have become increasingly prevalent since the broad adoption of software-defined networks (SDNs) in data centers. Modern TCP designs, including cuttingedge TCP variants DCTCP, CUBIC, and BBR, however, are not resilient to network updates that provoke flow rerouting. In this paper, we first demonstrate that popular TCP implementations perform inadequately in the presence of frequent and inconsistent network updates because inconsistent and frequent network updates result in out-of-order packets and packet drops induced via transitory congestion and lead to serious performance deterioration. We look into the causes and propose a network update-friendly TCP (NUFTCP), which is an extension of the DCTCP variant, as a solution. Simulations are used to assess the proposed NUFTCP. Our findings reveal that NUFTCP can more effectively manage the problems of out-of-order packets and packet drops triggered in network updates and it outperforms DCTCP considerably.
DCTCP, SDN, network updates, out-of-order packets, packet drop, software defined data center networks
1007-0214
1615-1632
Dogar, Abdul Basit
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Ullah, Sami
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Zhang, Yiran
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Alasmary, Hisham
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Waqas, Muhammad
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Chen, Sheng
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Dogar, Abdul Basit
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Zhang, Yiran
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Waqas, Muhammad
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Dogar, Abdul Basit, Ullah, Sami, Zhang, Yiran, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad and Chen, Sheng (2024) Resilient TCP variant enabling smooth network updates for software defined data center networks. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 29 (5), 1615-1632. (doi:10.26599/TST.2024.9010010).

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Abstract

Network updates have become increasingly prevalent since the broad adoption of software-defined networks (SDNs) in data centers. Modern TCP designs, including cuttingedge TCP variants DCTCP, CUBIC, and BBR, however, are not resilient to network updates that provoke flow rerouting. In this paper, we first demonstrate that popular TCP implementations perform inadequately in the presence of frequent and inconsistent network updates because inconsistent and frequent network updates result in out-of-order packets and packet drops induced via transitory congestion and lead to serious performance deterioration. We look into the causes and propose a network update-friendly TCP (NUFTCP), which is an extension of the DCTCP variant, as a solution. Simulations are used to assess the proposed NUFTCP. Our findings reveal that NUFTCP can more effectively manage the problems of out-of-order packets and packet drops triggered in network updates and it outperforms DCTCP considerably.

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Accepted/In Press date: 9 January 2024
Published date: 1 October 2024
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 1996-2012 Tsinghua University Press.
Keywords: DCTCP, SDN, network updates, out-of-order packets, packet drop, software defined data center networks

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Local EPrints ID: 486214
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/486214
ISSN: 1007-0214
PURE UUID: c621d7d6-5403-42e9-9221-2c61930cc9b5

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Date deposited: 15 Jan 2024 17:30
Last modified: 28 May 2024 16:32

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Author: Abdul Basit Dogar
Author: Sami Ullah
Author: Yiran Zhang
Author: Hisham Alasmary
Author: Muhammad Waqas
Author: Sheng Chen

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