Throughput Performance Analysis of the Multipath Communication Technologies for the Cloud

Abstract

Cloud based computing is among the top present-day research areas. Datacenters serving as the backend for cloud solutions have to satisfy the demands set by the time-critical applications emerging in our rushing world. In order to provide physical redundancy, the datacenters are equipped with redundant interserver connections that are left idle during normal operation via the traditional TCP protocol, e.g. with regards to link-capacity aggregation. Our paper provides a comparison between two technologies (MPTCP and MPT-GRE) that support multipath operation and could prove useful in datacenter environments by increasing efficiency and enhancing user experience in the cloud.

Keywords

• cloud network
• data center
• mpt-gre
• mptcp
• multipath communication
• performance analysis
• system throughput
• tunneling