Retransmission policies for multihomed transport protocols

Authors:
Armando L. Caro, Jr.;Paul D. Amer;Randall R. Stewart
Affiliations:
Internetwork Research Department, BBN Technologies, 10 Moulton St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;Protocol Engineering Lab, CIS Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-2586, USA;Internet Technologies Division, Cisco Systems, Suite 200, 4875 Forest Drive, Columbia, SC 29206
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
2006

Citing 9
Cited 8

Improving round-trip time estimates in reliable transport protocols

SIGCOMM '87 Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Frontiers in computer communications technology
On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic

SIGCOMM '93 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP): a reference guide

Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP): a reference guide
The Eifel algorithm: making TCP robust against spurious retransmissions

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
SCTP: A Proposed Standard for Robust Internet Data Transport

Computer
On making SCTP robust to spurious retransmissions

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
End-to-end fault tolerance using transport layer multihoming

End-to-end fault tolerance using transport layer multihoming
Transport layer multihoming for fault tolerance in FCS networks

MILCOM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on Military communications - Volume II
Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) preformance over the land mobile satellite channel

MILCOM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on Military communications - Volume II

Concurrent multipath transfer using SCTP multihoming over independent end-to-end paths

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Performance implications of a bounded receive buffer in concurrent multipath transfer

Computer Communications
Multistreamed web transport for developing regions

Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Comparative Study of Real-Time Multimedia Transmission over Multi-homing Transport Protocols

MMNS '08 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services: Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services
Real multiroute system (RMS) for mobile ad hoc networks: a cross layer approach

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
SCTP multihoming provisioning in converged IP-based multimedia environment

Computer Communications
A taxonomy and survey of SCTP research

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Multipath state aware concurrent multipath transfer using redundant transmission for multi-homed hosts

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.24

Visualization

Abstract

We evaluate three retransmission policies for transport protocols that support multihoming (e.g. SCTP). The policies dictate whether retransmissions are sent to the same peer IP address as the original transmission, or sent to an alternate peer IP address. Each policy presents tradeoffs based on the paths' bandwidth, delay, loss rate, and IP destination reachability. We find that sending all retransmissions to an alternate peer IP address is useful when the primary IP address becomes unreachable, but often degrades performance in non-failure scenarios. On the other hand, sending all retransmissions to the same peer IP address as the original transmission reverses the tradeoffs. We balance the tradeoffs by proposing a hybrid policy that sends fast retransmissions to the same peer IP address as the original transmission, and sends timeout retransmissions to an alternate peer IP address. We show that even with extensions which we proposed to improve the policies' performance, the hybrid policy is the best performing policy in failure and non-failure scenarios.