A User-level Socket Layer over Multiple Physical Network Interfaces

N. Mohamed, J. Al-Jaroodi, H. Jiang, and D. Swanson (USA)

Keywords

Middleware, socket, expandableb andwidth, load balancing, and fault tolerance

Abstract

n etwork APIs to hide low-level technical details from users. Parallel message fragmentation and reconstruction techniques and a reliable UDP-based protocol arei ntroduced. The proposed socket layer transparently provides an expandable high bandwidth solution, faultt olerance, and load balancing for transmitting largem essages over multiple networks. A prototype socketb ased on this model, called MuniSocket (MultipleN etwork Interface Socket), has been implemented ande valuated.

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• From Proceeding (373) Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - 2002

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