Due to certain shortcomings in TCP and UDP, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was defined for transporting telephony signaling traffic. The partially reliable extension of SCTP, PR-SCTP, has been considered as a candidate for prioritizing content sensitive traffic and trading reliability against timeliness for applications with soft real time requirements. In this thesis, we investigate the applicability of PR-SCTP for event logging applications. Event logs are inherently prioritized. This makes PR-SCTP a promising candidate for transporting event logs. However, the performance gain of PR-SCTP can be very limited when application message sizes are small and messages have mixed reliability requirements. Several factors influence PR-SCTP’s performance. One key factor is the inefficiency in the forward_tsn mechanism of PR-SCTP. We examine the inefficiency in detail and propose several solutions. Moreover, we implement and evaluate one solution that utilizes the Non-Renegable Selective Acknowledgements (NR-SACKs) mechanism currently being standardized in the IETF, which is available in the FreeBSD operating system. Our results show a significant performance gain for PR-SCTP with NR-SACKs. In some scenarios, the average message transfer delay is reduced by more than 75%. Moreover, we evaluate NR-SACK based PR-SCTP using real traces from an event logging application called syslog. It significantly improves the syslog application performance as compared to SCTP, TCP and UDP.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-14676 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Rajiullah, Mohammad |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för datavetenskap, Karlstad |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Karlstad University Studies, 1403-8099 ; 2012:44 |
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