A Survey on Recent Advances in Transport Layer Protocols

Polese, Michele; Chiariotti, Federico; Bonetto, Elia; Rigotto, Filippo; Zanella, Andréa; Zorzi, Michele

doi:10.1109/comst.2019.2932905

Cited by 120 publications

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“…TCP and all subsequent transport protocols that provide reliable end-to-end communication are based on end-to-end connections [54,64,80,83]. This has become a big problem for content-oriented Internet applications because connections are brittle, in most protocols the context exchange must be restarted if a connection is lost, a specific site must be selected to start the connection supporting content retrieval, and in-network caching cannot be used without compromising privacy.…”

Section: Reliable Transport Protocolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Named-Data Transport

Albalawi

Garcia-Luna-Aceves

2020

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking

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Named-Data Transport (NDT) is introduced to provide efficient content delivery by name over the existing IP Internet. NDT consists of the integration of three end-to-end architectural components: The first connection-free reliable transport protocol, the Named-Data Transport Protocol (NDTP); minor extensions to the Domain Name System (DNS) to include records containing manifests describing content; and transparent caches that track pending requests for content. NDT uses receiver-driven requests (Interests) to request content and NDT proxies that provide transparent caching of content while enforcing privacy. The performance of NDT, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and Named-Data Networking (NDN) is compared using off-the-shelf implementations in the ns-3 simulator. The results demonstrate that NDT outperforms TCP and is as efficient as NDN, but without making any changes to the existing Internet routing infrastructure. CCS CONCEPTS • Networks → Naming and addressing; Network protocol design; Transport protocols.

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Section: Reliable Transport Protocolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Named-Data Transport

Albalawi

Garcia-Luna-Aceves

2020

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking

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“…Our results reveal the correlations between congestion packet losses and the cross-layer network metrics in detail. We believe these results have deep implications for all participants in the mobile Internet ecosystem (2) We model the rate allocation on wireless nodes as a utility maximization problem which yields optimal proportional fair data rates. The rates are then transformed into windows to control the TCP sending rates (3) We solve the congestion window regression problem by exploring the correlations between potential network metrics and the congestion windows.…”

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“…Among the 70.6% of data, the multimedia traffic, the virtual reality, and augmented reality data have stringent Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. It is apparent that today's prevalent congestion control algorithms, the TCP family, fall short of the critical performance requirement, especially on the last (wireless) hop [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. In addition, current transport layer protocols are no longer suitable for the mmWave communication in 5G and Wi-Fi 6 [2,9,10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is apparent that today's prevalent congestion control algorithms, the TCP family, fall short of the critical performance requirement, especially on the last (wireless) hop [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. In addition, current transport layer protocols are no longer suitable for the mmWave communication in 5G and Wi-Fi 6 [2,9,10]. As the primary functions of TCP protocols, congestion control algorithms are designed to probe and utilize the network capacity efficiently.…”

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Learn-ing-Based On-AP TCP Performance Enhancement

Lin

Jiang

2020

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Data transmissions suffer from TCP’s poor performance since the introduction of the first commercial wireless services in the 1990s. Recent years have witnessed a surge of academia and industry activities in the field of TCP performance optimization. For a TCP flow whose last hop is a wireless link, congestions in the last hop dominate its performance. We implement an integral data sampling, network monitoring, and rate control software-defined wireless networking (SDWN) system. By analysing our sampled data, we find that there exist strong relationships between congestion packet loss behaviors and the instant cross-layer network metric measurements (states). We utilize these qualitative relationships to predict future congestions in wireless links and enhance TCP performance by launch necessary rate control locally on the access points (AP) before the congestions. We also implement modeling and rate control modules on this platform. Our platform senses the instant wireless dynamic and takes actions promptly to avoid future congestions. We conduct real-world experiments to evaluate its performance. The experiment results show that our methods outperform the bottleneck bandwidth and RTT (BBR) protocol and a recently proposed protocol Vivace on throughput, delay, and jitter performance at least 16.5%, 25%, and 12.6%, respectively.

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“…The infrastructures, technologies and protocols that support communications over the Internet have significantly evolved over the years to support the needs of the connected society and the increase in mobile, desktop and machine-generated traffic [4]. In particular, the research community has recently shown a renewed interest in topics related to the transport layer, with novel transport protocols and extensions to TCP such as, e.g., Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), and Multi-path TCP (MPTCP) [14]. Furthermore, novel congestion control algorithms have also been proposed to address novel communication challenges, such as those introduced by new cellular Radio Access Networks (RANs) (e.g., 3GPP LTE, NR) [21].…”

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A QUIC Implementation for ns-3

Biasio

Chiariotti

Polese

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Ns-3

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Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) is a recently proposed transport protocol, currently being standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It aims at overcoming some of the shortcomings of TCP, while maintaining the logic related to flow and congestion control, retransmissions and acknowledgments. It supports multiplexing of multiple application layer streams in the same connection, a more refined selective acknowledgment scheme, and low-latency connection establishment. It also integrates cryptographic functionalities in the protocol design. Moreover, QUIC is deployed at the application layer, and encapsulates its packets in UDP datagrams. Given the widespread interest in the new QUIC features, we believe that it is important to provide to the networking community an implementation in a controllable and isolated environment, i.e., a network simulator such as ns-3, in which it is possible to test QUIC's performance and understand design choices and possible limitations. Therefore, in this paper we present a native implementation of QUIC for ns-3, describing the features we implemented, the main assumptions and differences with respect to the QUIC Internet Drafts, and a set of examples.

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A Survey on Recent Advances in Transport Layer Protocols

Cited by 120 publications

References 211 publications

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Named-Data Transport

Learn-ing-Based On-AP TCP Performance Enhancement

A QUIC Implementation for ns-3

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