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A Multipath Background Network Architecture

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A Multipath Background Network Architecture
— Background transfers, or transfers that humans do not actively wait on, dominate the Internet today. In today’s best-effort Internet, background transfers can interfere with foreground transfers causing long wait times, thereby hurting human productivity. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a background network, Harp, that addresses this problem. Harp has three significant advantages over recent end-host based background transport protocols; Harp (i) uses multiple paths to exploit path diversity and load imbalance in the Internet to tailor network resource allocation to human needs, (ii) provides better fairness and utilization compared to unipath end-host protocols, and (iii) can be deployed at either end-hosts or enterprise gateways, thereby aligning the incentive for deployment with the goals of network customers. Our evaluation using simulations and a prototype on Planetlab suggests that Harp improves foreground TCP transfer time by a factor of five a...
Ravi Kokku, Aniruddha Bohra, Samrat Ganguly, Arun
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where INFOCOM
Authors Ravi Kokku, Aniruddha Bohra, Samrat Ganguly, Arun Venkataramani
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