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RAPID: a RAN-aware Performance Enhancing Proxy for High Throughput Low Delay Flows in MEC Networks

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5G enhanced Mobile broadband (eMBB) aims to provide users with a peak data rate of 20 Gbps in the Radio Access Network (RAN). However, since most Congestion Control Algorithms (CCAs) rely on startup and probe phases to discover the bottleneck bandwidth, they cannot quickly utilize the available RAN bandwidth and adapt to fast capacity changes without introducing large delay increase, especially when multiple flows are sharing the same Radio Link Control (RLC) buffer. To tackle this issue, we propose RAPID, a RAN-aware proxy-based flow control mechanism that prevents CCAs from overshooting more than the available RAN capacity while allowing near optimal link utilization. Based on analysis of up-to-date radio information using Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) services and packet arrival rates, RAPID is able to differentiate slow interactive flows from fast download flows and allocate the available bandwidth accordingly. Our simulation and experimentation results with concurrent Cubic and BBR flows show that RAPID can reduce delay increase by a factor of 10 to 50 in both Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Non-LOS (NLOS) conditions while preserving high throughput in both 4G and 5G environments.
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hal-03905784 , version 1 (19-12-2022)

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Mamoutou Diarra, Walid Dabbous, Amine Ismail, Brice Tetu, Thierry Turletti. RAPID: a RAN-aware Performance Enhancing Proxy for High Throughput Low Delay Flows in MEC Networks. Computer Networks, 2022, 218 (9), pp.109357. ⟨10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109357⟩. ⟨hal-03905784⟩
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