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Transmission scheduling for multi-homed transport protocols with network failure tolerance

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In heterogeneous network environments, the network connections of a multi-homed device may have significant bandwidth differential. For a multi-homed transmission protocol designed for network failure tolerance, such as SCTP, path selection algorithms for data transmission drastically affect performance. This article studies the effect of path bandwidth differential on the performance of retransmission strategies in multi-homing environments. It identifies that fast retransmission on an alternate path may cause receive buffer blocking when path bandwidth differential is significant and the receive buffer is limited. A theoretical model is proposed for selecting retransmission path during the fast retransmission phase, based on receive buffer and path conditions. From these observations and analysis results, this article proposes that path selection strategies for transmitting new data and retransmitted data should be decoupled. A new path selection scheme is proposed and evaluated through SCTP simulations.

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  1. Software Research Institute, Athlone Institute of Technology, Athlone, Ireland

    Yuansong Qiao, Enda Fallon, Zhiqiang Shi & Austin Hanley

  2. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yuansong Qiao & Zhiqiang Shi

  3. Performance Engineering Laboratory, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    John Murphy & Liam Murphy

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This Research Programme is supported by Enterprise Ireland through its Applied Research Enhancement fund and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 60873258.

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Qiao, Y., Fallon, E., Murphy, J. et al. Transmission scheduling for multi-homed transport protocols with network failure tolerance. Telecommun Syst 43, 39 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-009-9195-4

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