Improving Throughput with Cascaded TCP Connections: the Logistical Session Layer
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This paper describes a system designed to improve network performance and functionality in a way that is applicable from high-performance distributed computing to wireless and mobile networking. Our architecture captures the benefits of application-level routing while being designed as a general-purpose network service. We call our abstraction the Logistical Session Layer as it allows decisions about a flow’s path through the network to be made based on what can be thought of as network logistics. The “session” layer affords a conversation based on multiple transport-layer hops. We empirically examine the performance implications of the “cascaded” TCP connections that our approach facilitates.
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