Bandwidth aggregation with SCTP

Author

Argyriou, Antonios ; Madisetti, Vijay

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

7

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

3716

Abstract

We present a number of modifications to the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) recently adopted by IETF; they allow bandwidth aggregation over the multiple interfaces of a host. We show that it is possible to implement a number of algorithms for bandwidth aggregation, with only a small number of modifications to the basic SCTP. Our simulation results clearly depict the efficiency of our approach in terms of bandwidth utilization. Furthermore, we implement and evaluate a mechanism for identifying bottlenecks that are shared by flows from the same aggregate connection. Our purpose is to show that SCTP is a good candidate for building a practical protocol for bandwidth aggregation that is fair and supportive of TCP.

Keywords

quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; QoS; SCTP; TCP; bandwidth aggregation; bandwidth utilization; bottleneck identification; congestion control algorithm; stream control transmission protocol; Access protocols; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Computer interfaces; Internet; Local area networks; Network interfaces; Resource management; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258927

Filename

1258927