Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Innovation in IT  ·  2014/03/27  ·  Vol. 2  ·  Issue 1  ·  pp. 21–27
Comparison of Contemporary Protocols for High-speed Data Transport via 10 Gbps WAN Connections
Dmitry Kachan, Eduard Siemens
📄 Download PDF DOI: 10.13142/kt10002.04
Abstract
This work is dedicated to comparison of open source as well as proprietary transport protocols for highspeed data transmission via IP networks. The contemporary common TCP needs significant improvement since it was developed as general-purpose transport protocol and firstly introduced four decades ago. In nowadays networks, TCP fits not all communication needs that society has. Caused of it another transport protocols have been developed and successfully used for e.g. Big Data movement. In scope of this research the following protocols have been investigated for its efficiency on 10Gbps links: UDT, RBUDP, MTP and RWTP. The protocols were tested under different impairments such as Round Trip Time up to 400 ms and packet losses up to 2%. Investigated parameters are the data rate under different conditions of the network, the CPU load by sender and receiver during the experiments, size of feedback data, CPU usage per Gbps and the amount of feedback data per GiByte of effectively transmitted data. The best performance and fair resources consumption was observed by RWTP. From the open source projects, the best behavior is showed by RBUDP.
Keywords
high-speed data transport transport protocol WAN acceleration big data.
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