Data · dataset · 2026
High-performance reliable network-multicast over a trial deployment
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
A continuing trend in many scientific disciplines is the growth in the volume of data collected by scientific instruments and the desire to rapidly and efficiently distribute this data to the scientific community.
Description
As both the data volume and number of subscribers grows, a reliable network multicast is a promising approach to alleviate the demand for the bandwidth needed to support efficient data distribution to multiple, geographically-distributed, research communities.
In prior work, we identified the need for a reliable network multicast: scientists engaged in atmospheric research subscribing to meteorological file-streams. An application called Local Data Manager (LDM) is used to disseminate meteorological data to hundreds of subscribers. This paper presents a high-performance, reliable network multicast solution, Dynamic Reliable File-Stream Multicast Service (DRFSM), and describes a trial deployment comprising eight university campuses connected via Research-and-Education Networks (RENs) and Internet2 and a DRFSM-enabled LDM (LDM7).
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Using this deployment, we evaluated the DRFSM architecture, which uses network multicast with a reliable transport protocol, and leverages Layer-2 (L2) multipoint Virtual LAN (VLAN/MPLS). A performance monitoring system was developed to collect the real-time performance of LDM7. The measurements showed that our proof-of-concept prototype worked significantly better than the current production LDM (LDM6) in two ways.
First, LDM7 distributes data faster than LDM6. With six subscribers and a 100 Mbps bandwidth limit setting, an almost 22-fold improvement in delivery time was observed with LDM7. Second, LDM7 significantly reduces the bandwidth requirement needed to deliver data to subscribers.
LDM7 needed 90% less bandwidth than LDM6 to achieve a 20 Mbps average throughput across four subscribers.
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Topics
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
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