More and more so-called soft real-time traffic is being sent over IP-based networks. The bursty, data-limited traffic pattern as well as the latency requirements from this traffic present challenges to the traditional communication techniques, designed for bulk traffic without considering latency. To meet the requirements from soft real-time traffic, in particular from telephony signaling, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was designed. Its support for connectivity to multiple networks, i.e., multihoming, provides robustness and opens up for concurrent multipath transfer (CMT) over multiple paths. Since SCTP is a general transport protocol, it also enables for handover of media sessions between heterogeneous networks. Migrating an ongoing session to a new network, as well as CMT with minimal latency, requires tuning of several protocol parameters and mechanisms. This thesis addresses latency reduction for soft real-time traffic using SCTP multihoming from three perspectives. The first focus is on latency for signaling traffic in case of path failure, where a path switch, a failover, occurs. We regard quick failure detection as well as rapid startup on the failover target path. The results indicate that by careful parameter tuning, the failover time may be significantly reduced. The second focus in the thesis is on latency for signaling traffic using CMT. To this end, we address sender-side scheduling. We evaluate some existing schedulers, and design a dynamic stream-aware scheduler. The results indicate that the dynamic stream-aware scheduler may provide significantly improved latency in unbalanced networks. Finally, we target multihomed SCTP to provide for handover of a media session between heterogeneous wireless networks in a mobile scenario. We implement a handover scheme and our investigation shows that SCTP could provide for seamless handover of a media session at walking speed. / So-called soft real-time traffic may be sent over IP-based networks. The bursty, data-limited traffic pattern and the latency requirements from this traffic present a challenge to traditional communication techniques. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), with support for multihoming, was designed to better meet the requirements from soft-real time traffic. Multihoming provides for robustness and for concurrent multipath transfer (CMT) as well as for handover of sessions between heterogeneous networks. Still, to meet the timeliness requirements, tuning of protocol parameters and mechanisms is crucial. This thesis addresses latency reduction for soft real-time traffic using SCTP multihoming. The first focus is on signaling traffic in case of path failure, where a path switch, a failover, occurs. We show that careful parameter tuning may reduce the failover time significantly. The second focus is on signaling traffic using CMT. We address sender-side scheduling and show that dynamic stream-aware scheduling may reduce latency when data is transmitted over asymmetric network  paths. The third focus is multihomed SCTP for handover between heterogeneous networks, where we show that SCTP could provide for seamless handover of a media session at walking speed. / <p>Paper 3 (Efficient Scheduling to Reduce Latency...) ingick i avhandlingen som manuskript med samma namn.</p>

Cette thèse a été motivée par le développement des réseaux à très haut débit (au-delà de 1 Gb/s). Nous avons étudié comment ce type de réseaux peut changer les concepts et les protocoles utilisés actuellement. Nous avons considéré deux problèmes : le premier est le multihoming : la possibilité pour un hôte de bénéficier de plusieurs connexions simultanées aux fournisseurs d'accès, et le deuxième la distribution de contenu. Nous avons étudié le nouveau protocole de niveau transport SCTP et proposé des extensions qui permettent d'augmenter les performances et la fiabilité de communication grâce au multi-accès. Le protocole SCTP et les extensions proposées ont été testés et validés sur le réseau à très haut débit VTHD++. Pour le deuxième problème, nous avons conçu et prototypé un protocole de diffusion de contenu basé sur la notion d'inondation. Grâce au routage par contenu proposé pour le protocole, le contenu peut être livré aux consommateurs sans connaître leur localisation.

<p>Due to the cheap and flexible framework that the underlying IP-technology of the internet provides, IP-networks are becoming popular in more and more contexts. For instance, telecommunication operators have started to replace the fixed legacy telephony networks with IP-networks. To support a smooth transition towards IP-networks, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was standardized. SCTP is used to carry telephony signaling traffic, and solves a number of problems that would have followed from using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in this context. However, the design of SCTP is still heavily influenced by TCP. In fact, many protocol mechansisms in SCTP are directly inherited from TCP. Unfortunately, many of these mechanisms are not adapted to the kind of traffic that SCTP is intended to transport: time critical message-based traffic, e.g. telephony signaling.In this thesis we examine, and adapt some of SCTP's mechanisms to more efficiently transport time critical message-based traffic. More specifically, we adapt SCTP's loss recovery and message bundling for timely message transfers. First, we propose and experimentally evaluate two loss recovery mechanisms: a packet-based Early Retransmit algorithm, and a modified retransmission timeout management algorithm. We show that these enhancements can reduce loss recovery times with at least 30-50%, in some scenarios. In addition, we adapt the message bundling of SCTP to better support timely message delivery. The proposed bundling algorithm can in some situations reduce the transfer time of a message with up to 70%.In addition to these proposals we have also indentified and reported mistakes in some of the most popular SCTP implementations. Furthermore, we have continously developed the network emulation software KauNet to support our experimental evaluations.</p>

With the obvious evolution and acceleration of smart grid, it is crucial for its success to rely on a solid transmission protocol among its peripherals due to its real time streaming. TCP is the well known traditional transport protocol used for a reliable transmission, and is a major player for smart grid. However, it lacks a fault tolerance transmission method that overcomes potential failures which may mitigate smart grid progress and in its turn decrease its reliability. We propose that smart grid operators utilize SCTP as the principle transport protocol for their smart grid communications, by using the two very significant characteristics offered by SCTP multi-homing and multi-streaming respectively. Thus, we argue that they can override two major obstacles caused by TCP Head of Line Blocking (HLB) and the inability of handling automatically two or more paths to a final destination. Although SCTP resembles TCP in many aspects, SCTP can definitely play a dominant role in many current and future applications due to its key features that do not exist in TCP. We have used ns2.34 simulator as the tool whom we relied on to investigate whether or not smart grid may benefit over TCP by the two SCTP features, and have analyzed the output of simulated results by using other analytical tools. As we obtain results, we argue that smart grid operators should rely on SCTP as a feasible transmission protocol instead of TCP.

With the obvious evolution and acceleration of smart grid, it is crucial for its success to rely on a solid transmission protocol among its peripherals due to its real time streaming. TCP is the well known traditional transport protocol used for a reliable transmission, and is a major player for smart grid. However, it lacks a fault tolerance transmission method that overcomes potential failures which may mitigate smart grid progress and in its turn decrease its reliability. We propose that smart grid operators utilize SCTP as the principle transport protocol for their smart grid communications, by using the two very significant characteristics offered by SCTP multi-homing and multi-streaming respectively. Thus, we argue that they can override two major obstacles caused by TCP Head of Line Blocking (HLB) and the inability of handling automatically two or more paths to a final destination. Although SCTP resembles TCP in many aspects, SCTP can definitely play a dominant role in many current and future applications due to its key features that do not exist in TCP. We have used ns2.34 simulator as the tool whom we relied on to investigate whether or not smart grid may benefit over TCP by the two SCTP features, and have analyzed the output of simulated results by using other analytical tools. As we obtain results, we argue that smart grid operators should rely on SCTP as a feasible transmission protocol instead of TCP.

A current challenge in the Internet of Things is the seeking after conceptual structures to connect the presumably billions of devices of innumerable forms and capabilities. An emerging architectural concept, the fog cloud computing, moves the seemingly unlimited computational power of the distant cloud to the edge of the network, closer to the potentially computationally limited things, effectively diminishing the experienced latency. To allow computationally-constrained devices partaking in the network they have to be relieved from the burden of constant availability and extensive computational execution. Establishing a publish/subscribe communication pattern with the utilization of the popular Internet of Things application layer protocol Constrained Application Protocol is depicted one approach of overcoming this issue. In this project, a Java based library to establish a publish/subscribe communication pattern for the Constrained Application Protocol was develop. Furthermore, efforts to build and assess prototypes of several publish/subscribe application layer protocols executed over varying common as well as secured versions of the standard and non-standard transport layer protocols were made to take advantage, evaluate, and compare the developed library. The results indicate that the standard protocol stacks represent solid candidates yet one non-standard protocol stack is the considered prime candidate which still maintains a low response time while not adding a significant amount of communication overhead.

Submitted by João Arthur Martins (joao.arthur@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-11T18:40:22Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertaçao Lorena Marques.pdf: 2473408 bytes, checksum: ae5cba07c563d08350f8ddc5184cffee (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Daniella Sodre (daniella.sodre@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-13T13:10:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertaçao Lorena Marques.pdf: 2473408 bytes, checksum: ae5cba07c563d08350f8ddc5184cffee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T13:10:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertaçao Lorena Marques.pdf: 2473408 bytes, checksum: ae5cba07c563d08350f8ddc5184cffee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-25 / FACEPE / A crescente disponibilidade de acesso sem fio através de diferentes tecnologias (e.g., IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16 e 3G/UMTS) e o aumento do número de dispositivos com suporte a múltiplas interfaces heterogêneas possibilitam uma gama de oportunidades de conectividade sem fio aos usuários. Tradicionalmente, para este cenário, tem-se proposto algoritmos, protocolos e arquiteturas para a escolha da melhor rede de acordo com o perfil do usuário, característica da aplicação e da rede. Outra possibilidade de pesquisa, ainda não tão explorada no âmbito sem fio, é a distribuição de carga e conteúdo através de múltiplos caminhos simultâneos. Esta característica é conhecida como multihoming e pode dispor redundância de caminhos, oferecendo, dessa forma, certo grau de confiabilidade na rede. O grande desafio para implantação do multihoming em redes móveis heterogêneas decorre da instabilidade que esses ambientes possuem. O problema se agrava quando existem várias interfaces tentando se comunicar simultaneamente. O CMT (Concurrent Multipath Transfer) usa a característica multihoming do SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) para transmitir dados através de múltiplos caminhos fim-a-fim simultaneamente. No entanto, o CMT não possui um bom desempenho em redes com diferentes características, especialmente em se tratando de vídeo. Esta dissertação propõe o aCMT-UC (Adaptive CMT-User Centric), uma solução baseada em multihoming/centrada no usuário para a distribuição de carga em redes heterogêneas sem fio, tornando o CMT adaptável à dinâmica dos caminhos. O aCMT-UC prioriza os quadros de vídeo mais importantes que são transmitidos pelo melhor caminho sem fio. A distribuição de carga e priorização de vídeo são realizadas através da atribuição dinâmica de diferentes pesos para os caminhos sem fio, de acordo com um procedimento inteligente baseado em Lógica Fuzzy. Foram avaliadas métricas de Qualidade de Serviço e Experiência (QoS/QoE) em uma rede formada pelas tecnologias IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16 e 3G/UMTS em um simulador de redes (ns-2). Os resultados obtidos demonstram a eficácia da proposta em garantir QoS, bem como, o suporte adequado aos requisitos de tráfego de vídeo.

Due to the cheap and flexible framework that the underlying IP-technology of the internet provides, IP-networks are becoming popular in more and more contexts. For instance, telecommunication operators have started to replace the fixed legacy telephony networks with IP-networks. To support a smooth transition towards IP-networks, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was standardized. SCTP is used to carry telephony signaling traffic, and solves a number of problems that would have followed from using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in this context. However, the design of SCTP is still heavily influenced by TCP. In fact, many protocol mechansisms in SCTP are directly inherited from TCP. Unfortunately, many of these mechanisms are not adapted to the kind of traffic that SCTP is intended to transport: time critical message-based traffic, e.g. telephony signaling.In this thesis we examine, and adapt some of SCTP's mechanisms to more efficiently transport time critical message-based traffic. More specifically, we adapt SCTP's loss recovery and message bundling for timely message transfers. First, we propose and experimentally evaluate two loss recovery mechanisms: a packet-based Early Retransmit algorithm, and a modified retransmission timeout management algorithm. We show that these enhancements can reduce loss recovery times with at least 30-50%, in some scenarios. In addition, we adapt the message bundling of SCTP to better support timely message delivery. The proposed bundling algorithm can in some situations reduce the transfer time of a message with up to 70%.In addition to these proposals we have also indentified and reported mistakes in some of the most popular SCTP implementations. Furthermore, we have continously developed the network emulation software KauNet to support our experimental evaluations.

The main purpose of designing the Stream Control Protocol (SCTP) was tooffer a robust transfer of traffic between the hosts over the networks. For this reasonSCTP multi-homing feature was designed, in which an SCTP sender can access destinationhost with multiple IP addresses in the same session. If the primary path between the sourceand the destination is down, the traffic may still be sent to the destination by utilizingredundant path. And SCTP multi-homing also supports for the concurrent multipathtransfer of traffic. This paper introduces the effect of different network factors likeconcurrent cross traffic, congestion control algorithms and SACK timers on multi -homingfeature of SCTP. Throughput and end-to-end packet delay were used as performancemetrics to introduce the effect of these factors. From the study it was introduced thatconcurrent cross traffic in the network behaves same on multi -homed interfaces and bothinterfaces were affected almost same. It was concluded that congestion control algorithmsalso affects on multi-homing, the RED congestion control algorithm reduced delay andimproved throughput of the SCTP multi-homing. In RFC4960 recommended SACK timeris 200ms, but when 100ms SACK timer was used with concurrent multipath transfer inSCTP (CMT-SCTP) multi-homing, the high throughput and low delay was achieved ascompared with 200ms and 300ms, which indicated that different SACK timers affects onmulti-homing feature of SCTP. All the simulation works have been conducted in NS2network simulator.

With the obvious evolution and acceleration of smart grid, it is crucial for its success to rely on a solid transmission protocol among its peripherals due to its real time streaming. TCP is the well known traditional transport protocol used for a reliable transmission, and is a major player for smart grid. However, it lacks a fault tolerance transmission method that overcomes potential failures which may mitigate smart grid progress and in its turn decrease its reliability. We propose that smart grid operators utilize SCTP as the principle transport protocol for their smart grid communications, by using the two very significant characteristics offered by SCTP multi-homing and multi-streaming respectively. Thus, we argue that they can override two major obstacles caused by TCP Head of Line Blocking (HLB) and the inability of handling automatically two or more paths to a final destination. Although SCTP resembles TCP in many aspects, SCTP can definitely play a dominant role in many current and future applications due to its key features that do not exist in TCP. We have used ns2.34 simulator as the tool whom we relied on to investigate whether or not smart grid may benefit over TCP by the two SCTP features, and have analyzed the output of simulated results by using other analytical tools. As we obtain results, we argue that smart grid operators should rely on SCTP as a feasible transmission protocol instead of TCP.