Telco Distributed DC with Transport Protocol Enhancement for 5G Mobile Networks: A Survey
2017 (engelsk)Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
Abstract [en]
Distributed data center hosts telco virtual network functions, mixing workloads that require data transport through transport protocols with either low end-to-end latency or large bandwidth for high throughput, e.g., from tough requirements in 5G use cases. A trend is the use relatively inexpensive, off-the-shelf switches in data center networks, where the dominated transport traffic is TCP traffic. Today’s TCP protocol will not be able to meet such requirements. The transport protocol evolution is driven by transport performance (latency and throughput) and robust enhancements in data centers, which include new transport protocols and protocol extensions such as DCTCP, MPTCP and QUIC protocols and lead to intensive standardization works and contributions to 3GPP and IETF.
By implementing ECN based congestion control instead of the packet-loss based TCP AIMD congestion control algorithm, DCTCP not only solves the latency issue in TCP congestion control caused by the switch buffer bloating but also achieves an improved performance on the packet loss and throughput. The DCTCP can also co-exist with normal TCP by applying a modern coupled queue management algorithm in the switches of DC networks, which fulfills IETF L4S architecture. MPTCP is an extension to TCP, which can be implemented in DC’s Fat tree architecture to improve transport throughput and shorten the latency by mitigating the bandwidth issue caused by TCP connection collision within the data center. The QUIC is a reliable and multiplexed transport protocol over UDP transport, which includes many of the latest transport improvements and innovation, which can be used to improve the transport performance on streaming media delivery.
The Clos topology is a commonly used network topology in a distributed data center. In the Clos architecture, an over-provisioned fabric cannot handle full wire-speed traffic, thus there is a need to have a mechanism to handle overload situations, e.g., by scaling out the fabric. However, this will introduce more end-to-end latency in those cases the switch buffer is bloated, and will cause transport flow congestion.
In this survey paper, DCTCP, MPTCP and QUIC are discussed as solutions for transport performance enhancement for 5G mobile networks to avoid the transport flow congestion caused by the switch buffer bloating from overloaded switch queue in data centers.
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Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2017. , s. 54
Emneord [en]
5G, mobile, transport protocol, data center, dc, tcp, mptcp, dctcp, ecn, quic
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Forskningsprogram
Datavetenskap
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65371ISBN: 978-91-7063-830-5 (tryckt)ISBN: 978-91-7063-925-8 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-65371DiVA, id: diva2:1164941
Prosjekter
High Quality Networked Services in a Mobile World (HITS)
Forskningsfinansiär
Knowledge Foundation
Merknad
Working paper, December 2017
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