Summary: Multihoming Performance Benefits:An Experimental Evaluation of
Practical Enterprise Strategies
Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan Anees Shaikh
Dept. of Computer Science Network Software and Services
Carnegie Mellon University IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Hawthorne, NY 10532
Abstract
Multihoming is increasingly being employed by large en­
terprises and data centers as a mechanism to extract good
performance from their provider connections. Today, mul­
tihomed end­networks can employ a variety of commercial
route control products to optimize performance over multi­
ple ISP links. However, little is known about the mechanisms
employed by such products and their relative trade­offs.
In this paper, we propose and evaluate a wide range prac­
tical schemes that could go into the design of a route con­
trol device and analyze their trade­offs. We implement the
proposed schemes on a Linux­based Web proxy and per­
form a trace­based emulation of their relative performance
benefits. We show that both passive and active monitor­

Source: Akella, Aditya - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Shaikh, Anees - IBM Almaden Research Center

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences