Title

Traffic Balancing Via Smart Packets

Keywords

Bandwidth; Context modeling; Data engineering; Network servers; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web and internet services; Web server; Web sites; World Wide Web

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.

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2003

Number of Pages

15-21

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/IPOM.2003.1251219

Socpus ID

7744240081 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/7744240081

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