Cloud Computing: Machine-Driven Networking Could Double Transmission Speeds

Grazed from BizTechMagazine. Author: Ricky Ribiero.

What if the secret to faster, better networking speeds didn’t lie solely in hardware, additional switches and access points, but in letting the machines do the network management decision making? Network administrators might be breaking out into a sweat after reading that first line, but hear me out. According to a press release from the MIT News Office, a machine-driven system called Remy can generate TCP algorithms that could double network speeds.

In tests that simulated a high-speed, wired network with consistent transmission rates across physical links, Remy’s algorithms roughly doubled network throughput when compared to Compound TCP and TCP Cubic, while reducing delay by two-thirds…

The researchers behind the project, Hari Balakrishnan, a Fujitsu professor in electrical engineering and computer science, and graduate student Keith Winstein, plan to share their findings at the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communication. Balakrishnan believes that a machine-driven approach to TCP management can outperform humans because computers are better at handling networking complexities…

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