On the Placement of Infrastructure Overlay Nodes
Roy, S.
Pucha, H.
Zheng Zhang
Hu, Y.C.
Lili Qiu
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA;
This paper appears in: Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Publication Date: Aug. 2009
Volume: 17,
Issue: 4
On page(s): 1298-1311
ISSN: 1063-6692
INSPEC Accession Number: 10828358
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TNET.2008.2007433
First Published: 2009-04-28
Current Version Published: 2009-08-18
Abstract
Overlay routing has emerged as a promising approach to improving performance and reliability of Internet paths. To fully realize the potential of overlay routing under the constraints of deployment costs in terms of hardware, network connectivity and human effort, it is critical to carefully place infrastructure overlay nodes to balance the tradeoff between performance and resource constraints. In this paper, we investigate approaches to perform intelligent placement of overlay nodes to facilitate (i) resilient routing and (ii) TCP performance improvement. We formulate objective functions to capture application behavior: reliability and TCP performance, and develop several placement algorithms, which offer a wide range of tradeoffs in complexity and required knowledge of the client-server location and traffic load. Using simulations on synthetic and real Internet topologies, and PlanetLab experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the placement algorithms and objective functions developed, respectively. We conclude that a hybrid approach combining greedy and random approaches provides the best tradeoff between computational efficiency and accuracy. We also uncover the fundamental challenge in simultaneously optimizing for reliability and TCP performance, and propose a simple unified algorithm to achieve both.
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