Experiences with MPTCP in an intercontinental OpenFlow network

R van der Pol, M Bredel, A Barczyk, B Overeinder, NLM van Adrichem, FA Kuipers

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Abstract

The size and amount of e-science data sets is growing rapidly. Keeping up with the network demand in order to transfer these data sets over the Internet is a challenge. Single links do not have enough capacity anymore. Therefore we need to install more interfaces in the servers and use all available paths in the network. In this paper we describe two new technologies that help to optimally use the capacity of all multiple paths simultaneously. OpenFlow is used to discover the topology of the network,calculate multiple paths and configure those paths on the OpenFlow network. Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is used on the servers to distribute the load across the paths. We describe the end-to-end good put measurements we did in our OpenFlow test bed. We show that we reach a much higher throughput with multiple paths compared to a single path.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 29th Trans European Research and Education Networking Conference
EditorsD Foster et al
Place of PublicationAmsterdam, The Netherlands
PublisherTERENA
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)978-90-77559-23-9
Publication statusPublished - 2013
EventTERENA Networking Conference 2013 - Maastricht, Netherlands
Duration: 3 Jun 20136 Jun 2013

Publication series

Name
PublisherTERENA

Conference

ConferenceTERENA Networking Conference 2013
Abbreviated titleTNC 2013
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityMaastricht
Period3/06/136/06/13

Keywords

  • MPTCP
  • OpenFlow
  • Multipath
  • Big data

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