QAMO-SDN: QoS aware Multipath TCP for software defined optical networks

Cloud based datacenters will be most suitable candidates for future software defined networking. The QoS requirements for shared data centers, hosting diverse applications could be successfully achieved through SDN architecture. This paper provides an extension of our previously proposed scheme QAMO that was aimed at achieving tangible QoS in datacenters through controlling bandwidth reservation in Multipath TCP and OBS layer while maintaining throughput efficiency. However, QAMO was designed for traditional networks and did not have the capability to adapt to current network status as expected from future software defined networks. The paper presents an enhanced algorithm called QAMO-SDN that introduces a controller layer in previously proposed architecture and achieves adaptive QoS differentiation based on current network feedback. QAMO-SDN inherits the architecture of QAMO, using Multipath TCP over OBS networks. We evaluate the performance of QAMO-SDN under different network loads and topologies using realistic data center traffic models and present the results of our detailed simulation tests.