How to transfer flows efficiently via the Internet?

Author

Molnar, Stephen ; Moczar, Zoltan ; Sonkoly, Balazs

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun. & Media Inf., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2014

fDate

3-6 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

462

Lastpage

466

Abstract

In this paper we present a performance evaluation study of different transport mechanisms carried out in a testbed environment to reveal their efficiency regarding the transfer of different flows. The current versions of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are compared to the Digital Fountain based Communication Protocol (DFCP), which is our newly developed transport protocol where congestion control is not applied, but Raptor code based erasure coding scheme is used to recover lost packets. Our results demonstrate that both short-lived and long-lived flows can be transferred more efficiently by DFCP than by TCPs in various network conditions.

Keywords

Internet; next generation networks; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; DFCP; Raptor code based erasure coding scheme; digital fountain based communication protocol; testbed environment; transmission control protocol; transport mechanisms; transport protocol; DVD; Data transfer; Internet; Packet loss; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCNC.2014.6785379

Filename

6785379