Title
Traffic balancing via smart packets
Date Issued
01 January 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Central Florida
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The World Wide Web (WWW) has caught people's attention since its inception and today is a major source of traffic in the Internet. WWW traffic is typically asymmetric: servers receive small requests but answer with large number of packets. To ensure good service, WWW servers require a large egress bandwidth to the Internet. We propose an innovative approach to connect Web servers to the Internet via many outgoing connections. We employ cognitive packet networks to make packets learn which link provides the best quality for each client so as to balance the WWW traffic effectively. Egress bandwidth can easily be increased by increasing the number of links to the Internet. The paper describes our traffic engineering approach, an implementation model, a testbed platform in the context of the Linux kernel, and measurement data; these indicate the usefulness of our proposal.
Start page
15
End page
21
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-7744240081
ISBN of the container
9780780381995
Conference
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2003
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