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Design of Bandwidth Measurement based Scheduler for Improving MPTCP Performance in Bufferbloat Environment

Bufferbloat 환경에서 MPTCP 성능 개선을 위한 대역폭 측정 기반 스케줄러 설계

  • Kim, Min Sub (Department of Radio and Information Communications Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Han, Ki Moon (Department of Radio and Information Communications Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Lee, Jae Yong (Department of Radio and Information Communications Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Byung Chul (Department of Radio and Information Communications Engineering, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2017.06.27
  • Accepted : 2017.07.17
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a transport layer protocol that supports multipath transmission. If a bufferbloat occurs in one of the subflows of MPTCP, HoL blocking occurs at the receiver due to the difference in packet arrival time among paths. In MPTCP, HoL blocking degrades not only the performance of the path where bufferbloat occurs, but also the performance of other paths. In this paper, we propose a bandwidth measurement based scheduler to solve this problem. Bandwidth measurement based scheduler is designed to measure the bandwidth of each subflow and to perform packet scheduling based on it. In order to verify the proposed scheduler, we implemented the proposed scheduler in the Linux kernel and constructed a testbed in which bufferbloat occurs. Experimental results show that the proposed scheduler has better performance than the legacy MPTCP in bufferbloat environment.

Multipath TCP (MPTCP)는 다중 경로를 지원하는 전송계층 프로토콜이다. MPTCP가 가진 다중 경로 중에서 한 경로에 지연시간이 급격히 증가하는 "bufferbloat"가 발생하게 된다면 경로 간의 패킷 도착시간 차이로 수신버퍼에서 HoL blocking이 발생하여 bufferbloat가 발생된 경로뿐만 아닌 다른 경로의 성능도 저하되는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 대역폭 측정 기반의 스케줄러를 제안한다. 대역폭 측정 기반 스케줄러는 각 서브플로우의 대역폭을 측정하여 이를 기반으로 패킷 스케줄링을 하도록 설계하였다. 제안한 스케줄러 검증을 위해 리눅스커널에 제안한 스케줄러를 구현하고 bufferbloat가 발생하는 테스트베드를 구성하여 기존 MPTCP와 비교분석 하였다. 실험결과 제안한 스케줄러가 bufferbloat 환경에서 기존 MPTCP보다 성능이 크게 개선됨을 보였다.

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