On Minimizing TCP Retransmission Delay in Softwarized Networks

Haythem Yahyaoui; Melek Majdoub; Mohamed Faten Zhani; Moayad Aloqaily

doi:10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789762

On Minimizing TCP Retransmission Delay in Softwarized Networks

Haythem Yahyaoui^*
, Melek Majdoub
, Mohamed Faten Zhani^*
, Moayad Aloqaily

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

Today's Internet mainly relies on TCP protocol to ensure reliable communications between two endpoints. Unfortunately, this widely-used protocol may incur significant delay when transmitting lost packets. Indeed, with TCP, the source of the data detects lost packets using a timeout or duplicated acknowledgements before retransmitting them. As a result, the delay needed for a packet to reach the destination may become significant. This delay is estimated to be at least three times the end-to-end delay when the packet is lost once and could be even worse when the same packet is lost several times. As a matter of fact, this high delay cannot be tolerated by critical applications.To address this problem, in this paper, we focus on minimizing TCP retransmission delays and we introduce a novel network function called Transport Assistant that could be deployed within the network in order to cache, detect and retransmit lost packets. Thanks to this function, there is no need to wait for the source to detect and retransmit lost packets as the TA ensures packet retransmission from the network itself and thereby minimize retransmission delays. Through extensive experiments, we show that the TA allows to outperform the standard TCP by minimizing the average packet transmission time, the flow completion time, the packet loss and the number of retransmitted packets from the source.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022
Subtitle of host publication	Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022
Editors	Pal Varga, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Alex Galis, Istvan Godor, Noura Limam, Prosper Chemouil, Jerome Francois, Marc-Oliver Pahl
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665406017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789762
State	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022 - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 25 Apr 2022 → 29 Apr 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022

Conference

Conference	2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022
Country/Territory	Hungary
City	Budapest
Period	25/04/22 → 29/04/22

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.

Keywords

Congestion Control
Retransmission delay
Software Defined Networking
TCP

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management of Technology and Innovation
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Software
Information Systems and Management
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Yahyaoui, H., Majdoub, M., Zhani, M. F., & Aloqaily, M. (2022). On Minimizing TCP Retransmission Delay in Softwarized Networks. In P. Varga, L. Z. Granville, A. Galis, I. Godor, N. Limam, P. Chemouil, J. Francois, & M.-O. Pahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022 (Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789762

Yahyaoui, Haythem ; Majdoub, Melek ; Zhani, Mohamed Faten et al. / On Minimizing TCP Retransmission Delay in Softwarized Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022. editor / Pal Varga ; Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville ; Alex Galis ; Istvan Godor ; Noura Limam ; Prosper Chemouil ; Jerome Francois ; Marc-Oliver Pahl. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. (Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022).

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Yahyaoui, H, Majdoub, M, Zhani, MF & Aloqaily, M 2022, On Minimizing TCP Retransmission Delay in Softwarized Networks. in P Varga, LZ Granville, A Galis, I Godor, N Limam, P Chemouil, J Francois & M-O Pahl (eds), Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022. Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022, Budapest, Hungary, 25/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789762

On Minimizing TCP Retransmission Delay in Softwarized Networks. / Yahyaoui, Haythem; Majdoub, Melek; Zhani, Mohamed Faten et al.
Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022. ed. / Pal Varga; Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville; Alex Galis; Istvan Godor; Noura Limam; Prosper Chemouil; Jerome Francois; Marc-Oliver Pahl. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. (Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022).

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Yahyaoui H, Majdoub M, Zhani MF, Aloqaily M. On Minimizing TCP Retransmission Delay in Softwarized Networks. In Varga P, Granville LZ, Galis A, Godor I, Limam N, Chemouil P, Francois J, Pahl MO, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. (Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022). doi: 10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789762

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