Towards a Multipath TCP Aware Load Balancer

[en] Multipath TCP has been recently introduced in order to allow a better resource consumption and user quality-of-experience. This is achieved by allowing a connection between two hosts through multiple subflows. However, with the rise of middleboxes and inherent Internet ossification, the large-scale deployment of this TCP extension is difficult. In particular, a load balancer at the entry point of a data center may forward subflows to different servers, canceling so the advantages of Multipath TCP. In this paper, we introduce MpLB, a Multipath TCP aware load balancer that fixes this particular issue without any modification to the Multipath TCP protocol itself. We demonstrate advantages of MpLB through a proof-of-concept.

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Computer science

Author, co-author :

Lienardy, Simon ; Université de Liège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore)

Donnet, Benoît ; Université de Liège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Algorithmique des grands systèmes

Language :

English

Title :

Towards a Multipath TCP Aware Load Balancer

Publication date :

July 2016

Event name :

Applied Networking Research Workshop

Event date :

26 juillet 2016

Audience :

International

Main work title :

Applied Networking Research Workshop

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

European Projects :

H2020 - 688421 - MAMI - Measurement and Architecture for a Middleboxed Internet

Funders :

CE - Commission Européenne

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