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UCSD's bandwidth management breakthrough

By Alpha Doggs on Thu, 08/30/07 - 9:44am.
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University of California at San Diego computer scientists say they have developed a TCP-based bandwidth management system that works across global networks.

The “flow proportional share” algorithm created by Barath Raghavan and his teammates is designed to enable a group of rate limiters to work together, providing better availability of network applications, including Web sites.

“With our system, an organization with mirrored Web sites or other services across the globe could dynamically shift its bandwidth allocations between sites based on demand. You can’t do that now, and this lack of control is a significant drawback to today’s cloud-based computing approaches,” said Raghavan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering. 

The work is described in a paper called “Cloud Control with Distributed Rate Limiting” being presented at a conference this week in Kyoto, Japan.

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