Title

Enabling a Low-delay Internet Service via Built-in Performance Incentives

Authors

Maxim Podlesny, Washington University in St Louis
Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

2009

Filename

wucse-2009-70.pdf

DOI:

10.7936/K7MW2FCV

Technical Report Number

wucse-2009-70

Abstract

The single best-effort service of the Internet struggles to accommodate divergent needs of different distributed applications. Numerous alternative network architectures have been proposed to offer diversified network services. These innovative solutions failed to gain wide deployment primarily due to economic and legacy issues rather than technical shortcomings. Our paper presents a new simple paradigm for network service differentiation that accounts explicitly for the multiplicity of Internet service providers and users as well as their economic interests in environments with partly deployed new services. Our key idea is to base the service differentiation on performance itself, rather than price. We design RD (Rate-Delay) network services that give a user an opportunity to choose between a higher transmission rate or low queuing delay at a congested network link. To support the two services, an RD router maintains two queues per output link and achieves the intended ratedelay differentiation through simple link scheduling and dynamic buffer sizing. Our extensive evaluation of the RD network services reports their performance, deployability, and security properties.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7MW2FCV

Recommended Citation

Podlesny, Maxim and Gorinsky, Sergey, "Enabling a Low-delay Internet Service via Built-in Performance Incentives" Report Number: wucse-2009-70 (2009). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/24