Short vs. Long Flows: A Battle That Both Can Win

Morteza Kheirkhah, Ian Wakeman, George Parisis

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce MMPTCP, a hybrid transport protocol which aims at unifying the way data is transported in data centres. MMPTCP runs in two phases; initially, it randomly scatters packets in the network under a single congestion window exploiting all available paths. This is beneficial to latency-sensitive flows. During the second phase, MMPTCP runs in Multi-Path TCP mode, which has been
shown to be very efficient for long flows. Initial evaluation shows that our approach significantly improves short flow completion times while providing high throughput for long flows and high overall network utilisation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGCOMM '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication
PublisherACM
Pages349-350
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-3542-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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