Reconfigurable TCP: An Architecture for Enhanced Communication Performance in Mobile Cloud Services

Abstract

Commercial cloud services are growing rapidly, and system architecture that can process large volumes of large-scale data for mobile devices and sensing devices is expected to emerge in the future. Mobile devices will serve as both client terminals and virtual machines in such architecture. However, end-to-end TCP sessions are affected by frequent changes in wireless link quality and movement of virtual machines in the cloud data center. In this paper, we propose a method to improve communication performance by dynamically reselecting and retuning congestion control algorithms and parameters according to changes in link quality and attributes of applications.