Performance evaluation of TCP over software-defined optical burst-switched data centre network

Imran, Muhammad, Collier, Martin ORCID: 0000-0002-6410-3899, Landais, Pascal ORCID: 0000-0002-4807-0695 and Katrinis, Kostas ORCID: 0000-0002-1136-6062 (2017) Performance evaluation of TCP over software-defined optical burst-switched data centre network. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), 24 . pp. 44-53. ISSN 1742-7185

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the performance of TCP when used in data centre networks (DCNs) featuring optical burst switching (OBS) using two-way reservation. The two-way reservation is not suitable in wide-area OBS networks due to high bandwidth-delay product (BDP). The burst loss using traditional methods of one-way reservation can be mistakenly interpreted by the TCP layer as congestion instead of contention in OBS network, leading to serious degradation of the TCP performance. The reduced BDP in DCNs allows the use of two-way reservation that results in zero burst loss. The modelled architecture features fast optical switches in a single hop topology. We apply different workloads with various burst assembly parameters to evaluate the performance of TCP. Our results show significant improvement in TCP performance as compared to traditional methods of OBS as well as to a conventional electronic packet switching DCN.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:TCP; Optical burst switching; Data centre networking; Optical interconnects
Subjects:Engineering > Optical communication
Engineering > Telecommunication
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Initiatives and Centres > Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE)
Publisher:Inderscience
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2017.12.003
Copyright Information:© 2017 Elsevier
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:24840
Deposited On:22 Jul 2020 09:46 by Pascal Landais . Last Modified 31 Jul 2020 14:09

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