Comparing edge and host traffic pacing in small buffer networks

HH Gharakheili, A Vishwanath, V Sivaraman - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
As packet switching speeds scale to Terabits-per second and beyond, power considerations
are increasingly forcing core router manufacturers to adopt all-optical and hybrid opto …

Edge versus host pacing of tcp traffic in small buffer networks

HH Gharakheili, A Vishwanath… - 2013 IFIP Networking …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As packet switching speeds scale to Terabits-persecond and beyond, power considerations
are increasingly forcing core router manufacturers to adopt all-optical and hybrid …

A practical on-line pacing scheme at edges of small buffer networks

Y Cai, B Jiang, T Wolf, W Gong - 2010 Proceedings IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the optical packet-switching routers to be widely deployed in the Internet, the size of
packet buffers on routers has to be significantly small. Such small-buffer networks rely on …

A study of the impact of network traffic pacing from network and end-user perspectives

Y Cai, YS Hanay, T Wolf - 2011 Proceedings of 20th …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the demand on the Internet bandwidth keeps increasing, all-optical network architectures
emerge as a promising solution to high-speed telecommunication networks. However, the …

Practical packet pacing in small-buffer networks

Y Cai, YS Hanay, T Wolf - 2009 IEEE International Conference …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demand for more bandwidth has lead to proposals for an all-optical network core. Due
to inherent constraints of optical technology, only routers with small packet buffers are …

Delaying transmissions in data communication networks to improve transport-layer performance

Y Cai, T Wolf, W Gong - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Packet losses in the network have a considerable performance impact on transport-layer
throughput. For reliable data transfer, lost packets require retransmissions and thus cause …

[PDF][PDF] TCP pacing revisited

D Wei, P Cao, S Low, C EAS - Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2006 - Citeseer
TCP pacing promises to reduce burstiness of TCP traffic and alleviate the impact of under-
buffered routers and switches on flow throughput. However, current research literatures …

Transport-layer control to increase throughput in bufferless optical packet-switching networks

PJ Argibay-Losada, G Sahin, K Nozhnina… - Journal of Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We show that, in an optical packet-switching (OPS) network with bufferless switches, end-to-
end congestion control algorithms can be designed to completely overcome the pernicious …

Enabling TCP pacing using programmable data plane switches

EF Kfoury, J Crichigno, E Bou-Harb… - 2019 42nd …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous studies have observed that TCP pacing evenly spacing out packets-minimizes
traffic burstiness, reduces packet losses, and increases throughput. However, the main …

Exploring parallelism and desynchronization of TCP over high speed networks with tiny buffers

C Cui, L Xue, CH Chiu, P Kondikoppa… - Computer Communications, 2015 - Elsevier
The buffer sizing problem is a big challenge for high speed network routers to reduce buffer
cost without throughput loss. The past few years have witnessed debate on how to improve …