%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Balancing by PREFLEX: Congestion Aware Traffic Engineering
%+ University College of London [London] (UCL)
%A Araújo, João, Taveira
%A Clegg, Richard
%A Grandi, Imad
%A Rio, Miguel
%A Pavlou, George
%Z Part 3: Resource Allocation
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 10th IFIP Networking Conference (NETWORKING)
%C Valencia, Spain
%Y Jordi Domingo-Pascual
%Y Pietro Manzoni
%Y Sergio Palazzo
%Y Ana Pont
%Y Caterina Scoglio
%I Springer
%3 NETWORKING 2011
%V LNCS-6641
%N Part II
%P 135-149
%8 2011-05-09
%D 2011
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-20798-3_11
%K Traffic engineering
%K congestion control
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers
%X There has long been a need for a robust and reliable system which distributes traffic across multiple paths. In particular such a system must rarely reorder packets, must not require per-flow state, must cope with different paths having different bandwidths and must be self-tuning in a variety of network contexts. PREFLEX, proposed herein, uses estimates of loss rate to balance congestion. This paper describes a method of automatically adjusting how PREFLEX will split traffic in order to balance loss across multiple paths in a variety of network conditions.Equations are derived for the automatic tuning of the time scale and traffic split at a decision point. The algorithms described allow the load balancer to self-tune to network conditions. The calculations are simple and do not place a large burden on a router which would implement the algorithm. The algorithm is evaluated by simulation using ns-3 and is shown to perform well under a variety of circumstances. The resulting adaptive, end-to-end traffic balancing architecture provides the necessary framework to meet the increasing demands of users while simultaneously offering edge networks more fine-grained control at far shorter timescales.
%G English
%Z TC 6
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01597978/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01597978/file/978-3-642-20798-3_11_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01597978
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01597978
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