Design and Implementation of Inter-ISP Virtual Backbone Infrastructure to Meet Various QoS Requirements

Author

Omizo, Takuya ; Masui, Kenji ; Iida, Katsuyoshi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

18-21 July 2011

Firstpage

486

Lastpage

491

Abstract

The variety of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements from applications is increasing and overlay networks are spreading widely. Because of this, a means of flexibly supporting various applications, including overlay network applications, must be devised. In this paper, we describe an inter-ISP virtual backbone infrastructure designed to flexibly meet various QoS requirements. In our infrastructure, we use "overlay routers" which are deployed by ISPs. The overlay routers manage virtual backbones, which provide an overlay network for particular applications, and relay application traffic to the virtual backbones. We have implemented a set of prototypes, including the overlay router and sample client programs, to test the infrastructure\´s feasibility and fundamental performance. We qualitatively compare our infrastructure with Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) and describe some remaining technical challenges.

Keywords

computer network management; optimisation; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; QoS requirements; application-layer traffic optimization; inter-ISP virtual backbone infrastructure; overlay networks; overlay routers; quality of service; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Process control; Quality of service; Routing protocols; Throughput; Topology; Overlay Network; Overlay Router; QoS; Virtual Backbone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet (SAINT), 2011 IEEE/IPSJ 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Munich, Bavaria

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0531-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4423-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT.2011.90

Filename

6004127