1st International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications

Research Article

Performance of high-speed transport protocols coexisting on a long distance 10-Gbps testbed network

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/gridnets.2007.2248,
        author={Kazumi Kumazoe and Masato Tsuru and Yuji Oie},
        title={Performance of high-speed transport protocols coexisting on a long distance 10-Gbps testbed network},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={GRIDNETS},
        year={2007},
        month={10},
        keywords={high-speed transport protocol Grid computing high-speed Internet},
        doi={10.4108/gridnets.2007.2248}
    }
    
  • Kazumi Kumazoe
    Masato Tsuru
    Yuji Oie
    Year: 2007
    Performance of high-speed transport protocols coexisting on a long distance 10-Gbps testbed network
    GRIDNETS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/gridnets.2007.2248
Kazumi Kumazoe1,*, Masato Tsuru2,*, Yuji Oie2,*
  • 1: NICT, Kyushu Research Center 3-8-1, Asano, Kitakyushu Fukuoka Pref., Japan 802-0001
  • 2: Kyushu Institute of Technology 280-4, Kawazu, Iizuka Fukuoka Pref., Japan 820-8502
*Contact email: kuma@kyushu.jgn2.jp, tsuru@ndrc.kyutech.ac.jp, oie@cse.kyutech.ac.jp

Abstract

Our group has been conducting a series of experiments on various recently available high-speed transport protocols over long-distance, 10-gigabit-class, international testbed networks. The study reported here focuses on the scenario of multiple coexisting flows along an end-to-end 10-Gbps path, where TCP-based transport protocols are used. The results show that two coexisting high-speed flows cannot share network resources efficiently. For example, for some protocols, competition between two flows prevents the sum of their throughputs from fully utilizing available bandwidth, especially when flows have the same RTT, and causes considerable imbalance in the time-averaged throughput between two flows, especially when there are different RTTs.