Title :
An empirical study of bonded heterogeneous WAN access links
Author_Institution :
HP Lab., Princeton, NJ
Abstract :
Bonding multiple low-cost physical communication links to form a single, higher capacity logical link is a common and inexpensive approach to increasing WAN access bandwidth. Though bonded links have traditionally been homogeneous, the emergence of multi-homed hosts and diverse access technologies (e.g., cable modem, DSL, connection sharing via 802.11x) compel us to study the performance of bonding increasingly heterogeneous links. We examine the end-to-end performance of a single TCP connection with packets transmitted over multiple links. We describe a testbed we constructed, and present throughput results for bonded links with heterogeneous component links
Keywords :
radio access networks; radio links; transport protocols; TCP connection; bonded heterogeneous WAN access links; end-to-end performance; physical communication links; Bandwidth; Bonding; Business; DSL; Hardware; Linux; Routing; Testing; Throughput; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 2005. LANMAN 2005. The 14th IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Crete
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9565-4
DOI :
10.1109/LANMAN.2005.1541531
