A network communication speedup model using multiple fungible and non-fungible paths

Abstract

The advent of industry 5.0 has seen technologies such as cyber-physical systems, sensors, mobile devices and a host of others, connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). The sheer growth of the IoT and the data transmitted across it calls for faster speeds (speedup), which in turn are facilitated by more bandwidth and better use of existing bandwidth. Speedup itself is not new and has been extensively studied in the literature in high performance computing and related fields. In this paper, some methods to achieve theoretical speedup in network communications are explored and tested using simulations and extrapolations. We also explored the theoretical limits of speedup. Some theoretical limits of speedup are also proposed, along with a model to estimate the speedup that can be achieved using larger container sizes over the existing bandwidth. We have also proposed a way to estimate the speedup that can be achieved when more bandwidth is provided using multiple fungible and non-fungible paths. It is anticipated that our proposed speedup model will assist the manufacturers of IoT sensors and smart devices, as well as network administrators and software developers in determining what theoretical speedup can be achieved with a certain network configuration, and in building devices and software capable to achieve practical speedups as close as possible to the predicted theoretical speedups. This in turn will lead to faster response and data transmission times in IoT and other network applications that leverage the speedup achieved.