An OpenFlow Based Multipath Transmission Mechanism

CHEN Ming; HU Hui; LIU Bo; XING Changyou; XU Bo

doi:10.11999/JEIT150928

Volume 38 Issue 5

May 2016

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CHEN Ming, HU Hui, LIU Bo, XING Changyou, XU Bo. An OpenFlow Based Multipath Transmission Mechanism[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2016, 38(5): 1242-1248. doi: 10.11999/JEIT150928

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CHEN Ming, HU Hui, LIU Bo, XING Changyou, XU Bo. An OpenFlow Based Multipath Transmission Mechanism[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2016, 38(5): 1242-1248. doi: 10.11999/JEIT150928

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An OpenFlow Based Multipath Transmission Mechanism

doi: 10.11999/JEIT150928 cstr: 32379.14.JEIT150928

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The State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (2012CB315806), The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61379149), Jiangsu Province Project of Science and Technology (BY2013095-1-06), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20140070)

Received Date: 2015-08-07
Rev Recd Date: 2015-12-18
Publish Date: 2016-05-19

Abstract

Abstract

In order to solve the traffic engineering problems such as low throughput and poor load balancing in high connected data center networks, an OpenFlow based Multipath Transmission (OFMT) mechanism is proposed. By taking advantage of OpenFlow centralized control, OFMT calculates precisely the transmission path for each flow and assigns optimally the traffic flow in all transmission paths, it also executes periodic polling and dynamic scheduling mechanisms to achieve good load balancing and high throughput. The experimental results show that the network throughput is significantly improved in OFMT compared with typical data center transport protocols, and OFMT shortens the flow completion time under the same traffic workloads.
- Data center network,
- OpenFlow,
- Multipath transmission,
- Load balancing,
- Traffic engineering

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