Title :
The effects of Active Queue Management and Explicit Congestion Notification on DNS traffic
Author :
Harhalakis, Stefanos ; Samaras, Nikolaos ; Vitsas, Vasileios
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Inf., Univ. of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
fDate :
June 28 2011-July 1 2011
Abstract :
Active Queue Management (AQM) and Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) are two methods that attempt to alleviate the problems of FIFO queues and of packet drops for congestion indication respectively. Random Early Detection (RED) is the most popular AQM method. The Domain Naming System (DNS) protocol is a core Internet protocol with very high impact on user experience and overall network functionality. This paper presents experimental results that show an inefficiency of RED that results in degraded performance of the DNS protocol when compared with FIFO queues. The results that are presented show 8 to 50 percentage points drop of DNS efficiency depending on network conditions.
Keywords :
IP networks; protocols; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; AQM method; DNS protocol; DNS traffic; FIFO queues; Internet protocol; active queue management; domain naming system protocol; explicit congestion notification; random early detection; Delay; IP networks; Internet; Linux; Monitoring; Protocols; Servers; Active Queue Management; Domain Name System; Explicit Congestion Notification; Random Early Detection;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2011 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kerkyra
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0680-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1346
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2011.5983957
