Analysis of TCP Performance in Data Center Networks

Download or read book Analysis of TCP Performance in Data Center Networks written by Santosh Kulkarni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the need to improve TCP’s performance inside data centers by providing solutions that are both practical and backward compatible with standard TCP versions. The authors approach this challenge first by deriving an analytical model for TCP’s performance under typical data center workload traffic. They then discuss some solutions that are designed to improve TCP performance by either proactively detecting network congestion through probabilistic retransmission or by avoiding timeout penalty through dynamic resizing of TCP segments. Experimental results show that each of techniques discussed outperforms standard TCP inside a data center.