Performance Evaluation of Multiple TCP connections in iSCSI

Kancherla, Bhargava K and Narayan, Ganesh M and Gopinath, K (2007) Performance Evaluation of Multiple TCP connections in iSCSI. In: 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, September 2007, San Diego, California, USA, 239 -244.

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Abstract

Storage Area Networks (SANs) based on Fibre Channel have been used extensively in the last decade while iSCSI is fast becoming a serious contender due to its reduced costs and unified infrastructure. This work examines the performance of iSCSI with multiple TCP connections. Multiple TCP connections are often used to realize higher bandwidth but there may be no fairness in how bandwidth is distributed. We propose a mechanism to share congestion information across multiple flows in "Fair-TCP" for improved performance. Our results show that Fair-TCP significantly improves the performance for I/O intensive workloads.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE Computer Society
Additional Information:	The publication details not yet available
Keywords:	Storage Area Network;iSCSI;Scheduling;Performance
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	27 Mar 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:43
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/13502

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