UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol Research Articles

UDT 환경에서 혼잡상황 예측 및 패킷손실을 고려한 성능향상 기법

최근 네트워크 기술의 비약적인 발전으로 사용자가 이용할 수 있는 대역폭이 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 대용량 고속 네트워크에서 보다 신속하고 안정적인 전송기법이 요구되고 있다. UDT(UDP based Data Transfer protocol)는 UDP 기반의 전송 프로토콜이며, 일정 SYN time마다 rate control을 진행함으로써 긴 RTT 환경에서 TCP 보다 두드러진 성능을 보인다. 하지만, NAK 발생시 고정적인 sendInterval의 증가와, 이전 시간의 RTT에 기반한 flow control로 인해 최적의 성능을 기대하기 힘들다. 본 논문에서는 실험에 의한 결과값을 바탕으로 NAK 수신시 RTT 구간에 따라 sendInterval을 조절하는 rate 제어기법을 제시한다. 또한 TCP vegas에 기반하여 네트워크 혼잡을 예측하는 향상된 flow 제어기법을 제시한다. 실제 Testbed를 구성하여 실험한 결과, 각각의 제안기법에 대해 약 20Mbps정도 향상된 throughput이 측정되었다. 또한, 두 기법을 혼합 적용한 결과에서는 최고 26Mbps의 성능 향상을 확인하였다. Recently, the bandwidth available to an end user has been dramatically increasing with the advancing of network technologies. This high-speed network naturally requires faster and/or stable data transmission techniques. The UDT(UDP based Data Transfer protocol) is a UDP based transport protocol, and shows more efficient throughput than TCP in the long RTT environment, with benefit of rate control for a SYN time. With a NAK event, however, it is difficult to expect an optimum performance due to the increase of fixed sendInterval and the flow control based on the previous RTT. This paper proposes a rate control method on following a NAK, by adjusting the sendInterval according to some degree of RTT period which calculated from a set of experimental results. In addition, it suggests an improved flow control method based on the TCP vegas, in order to predict the network congestion afterward. An experimental results show that the revised flow control method improves UDT's throughput about 20Mbps. With combining the rate control and flow control proposed, the UDT throughput can be improved up to 26Mbps in average.

Ultra-rapid UT1 measurement by e-VLBI

Abstract The latency of UT1 measurement with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) has been greatly reduced by using e-VLBI technology. VLBI observations on the baseline formed by the Kashima 34-m and the Onsala 20-m radio telescopes achieved ultra-rapid UT1 measurements, where the UT1 result was obtained within 30 min after the end of the observing session. A high speed network and a UDP-based data transfer protocol ‘Tsunami’ assisted the high data rate and long-distance data transfer from Onsala to Kashima. The accuracy of the UT1 value obtained from the 1-h single baseline e-VLBI experiment has been confirmed to be as the same level with the rapid combined solution of Bulletin-A. The newly developed technology is going to be transferred to the regular intensive VLBI sessions, and it is expected to contribute to the improved latency and accuracy of UT1 data.