A Multipath Controller for Accelerating GridFTP Transfer over SDN

Abstract

A large amount of scientific data needs to be transferred from one site to another as fast as possible in the computational science fields. High-speed data transfer between sites is very important, especially in the Grid computing field; GridFTP has been widely used for bulk data transfer over a wide area network. GridFTP achieves greater performance by supporting parallel TCP streams. Using parallel TCP streams improves the throughput of slow-start algorithms and lossy networks even on a single path. This research proposes a traffic engineering technique that increases the data transfer performance by using multiple paths simultaneously for the parallel TCP streams. For this purpose, we use SoftwareDefined Network (SDN) technology and its implementation, OpenFlow. This paper presents the design and implementation of the proposed system. Our performance evaluation demonstrates that our proposed system can accelerate GridFTP Transfer in both virtual and real global-scale environments.

A simple multipath OpenFlow controller using topology‐based algorithm for multipath TCP

“…In the local testbed, two topology configurations shown in ( Figure 4) are modeled after a previous work from our research group [16]. Topology 1 (Figure 4a…”

On SDN-Driven Network Optimization and QoS Aware Routing Using Multiple Paths

“…Cross-layer coordination among ISPs utilizing multi-paths to achieve optimal resource allocation and increased reliability is considered by Basit et al [33]. Huang et al experimentally evaluated an SDN multipath solution for GridFTP [34], [35] to address traffic engineering considering a multipath modification of Dijkstra's algorithm to increase data transfer rates. A study on SDN enabled disjoint multipath routing is performed by Fu and Wu [36] demonstrating the benefits of load balancing against the conventional shortest path routing, considering different network graph models.…”

A Survey on the Contributions of Software-Defined Networking to Traffic Engineering

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