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OptIPuter Networking and Middleware

OptIPuter Networking and Middleware. Joe Bannister Aaron Falk Carl Kesselman Marcus Thiébaux USC Information Sciences Institute February 7, 2003. The Need for High-Performance Transport. TCP performance suffers in some environments High bandwidth-delay networks

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OptIPuter Networking and Middleware

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  1. OptIPuter Networking and Middleware Joe Bannister Aaron Falk Carl Kesselman Marcus Thiébaux USC Information Sciences Institute February 7, 2003

  2. The Need for High-Performance Transport • TCP performance suffers in some environments • High bandwidth-delay networks • Cautious probing of bandwidth • Aggressive backoff after presumed packet loss • Designed for under-engineered networks • Stability and farness for all • Information comes from the edges of the network • Crude congestion signals from the core OptIPuter Project Meeting

  3. Explicit Control Protocol (XCP) • XCP is a newly proposed congestion-control scheme • Decouples fairness control from congestion control • Use aggressive window adjustments (MIMD) for congestion control which can grab/release large bandwidth quickly • More conservative window adjustments (AIMD) provide fairness control which converges to fair bandwidth allocation • Bottleneck router explicitly tells sender about bandwidth allocation • Applications may request explicit send rate • XCP requires modified router behavior but no per-flow state in routers • State carried in congestion header in packets Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, and Charles Rohrs, “Internet Congestion Control for Future High Bandwidth-Delay Product Environments,” Proc. ACM Sigcomm 2002, Aug. 2002. http://ana.lcs.mit.edu/dina/XCP/ OptIPuter Project Meeting

  4. Congestion Window Set by Bottleneck Router OptIPuter Project Meeting

  5. XCP Performance • Superior to TCP • Almost never drops packets • Converges to available bandwidth very quickly, ~1 RTT • Fair over large variations in bandwidth and RTT • Supports existing TCP semantics • Replaces only congestion control, reliability unchanged • No change to application/network API • Status • Analysis based entirely on ns-2 simulations • Software design and coding begun (multiple implementations) • Experimentation and interoperability testing planned • Researcher and vendor collaborations OptIPuter Project Meeting

  6. Comparison of XCP and TCP Avg. Utilization Avg. Utilization Bottleneck Bandwidth (Mb/s) Round Trip Delay (sec) From http://www.ana.lcs.mit.edu/dina/XCP/Sigcomm2002.ppt OptIPuter Project Meeting

  7. Credits and Collaboration • Dina Katabi – proposed XCP • USC ISI • Aaron Falk • Ted Faber • Bob Braden • MIT LCS • John Wroclawski • Dina Katabi • UCB ICIR • Sally Floyd • Mark Handley (till May 2003) • UCL • Mark Handley (after May 2003) • PSC • Matt Mathis OptIPuter Project Meeting

  8. Progress and Plans • Wide ongoing collaboration effort • Mailing list • Web site • Design, implementation, and interoperability • Protocol design • ns-2 simulations • Coding • Linux/FreeBSD hosts and routers • IPX-1200 • Globus Toolkit integration • Application-level performance • IETF and standardization • A. Falk, Transport Area Directorate, PILC/DCCP WG Chair • Vendor adoption • Collaboration and prototyping • Market plans OptIPuter Project Meeting

  9. ISI Personnel for XCP Development Task • Aaron Falk: software development leader, standardization • Ted Faber: software development, congestion management • Venkata Pingali (GRA): simulation, performance analysis • Bob Braden: collaboration liaison, senior advisor • Joe Bannister: task manager OptIPuter Project Meeting

  10. Why Use XCP? • XCP is a serious candidate to replace TCP congestion control in the Internet • No change to bulk of TCP kernel code or API semantics • Excellent performance, link utilization, and packet loss across wide ranges of RTT, link bandwidth, flow size • Capable of fair coexistence with other Internet protocols • Gradual Internet deployment possible • But … requires changes to routers OptIPuter Project Meeting

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