Fitting Square Pegs Through Round Pipes: Unordered Delivery Wire-Compatible with TCP and TLS
| Autor: | Nowlan, Michael F., Tiwari, Nabin, Iyengar, Janardhan, Amin, Syed Obaid, Ford, Bryan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | NSDI '12, San Jose, CA, April 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Internet applications increasingly employ TCP not as a stream abstraction, but as a substrate for application-level transports, a use that converts TCP's in-order semantics from a convenience blessing to a performance curse. As Internet evolution makes TCP's use as a substrate likely to grow, we offer Minion, an architecture for backward-compatible out-of-order delivery atop TCP and TLS. Small OS API extensions allow applications to manage TCP's send buffer and to receive TCP segments out-of-order. Atop these extensions, Minion builds application-level protocols offering true unordered datagram delivery, within streams preserving strict wire-compatibility with unsecured or TLS-secured TCP connections. Minion's protocols can run on unmodified TCP stacks, but benefit incrementally when either endpoint is upgraded, for a backward-compatible deployment path. Experiments suggest that Minion can noticeably improve performance of applications such as conferencing, virtual private networking, and web browsing, while incurring minimal CPU or bandwidth costs. Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, 1 table |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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