[Ndn-interest] Sending files with NDN (putchunks/ndnpoke)

César A. Bernardini mesarpe at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 03:49:55 PDT 2018


Hi Junxiao,

Thanks for your comments,

Maybe it's not fair to compare today. But we definitively should! If we
want that ICN/NDN sees the light, we need to be able to find bottlenecks
and transmit large file sizes :)

Are you familiar with some of these bottlenecks?

Cheers,

2018-04-16 12:13 GMT+02:00 Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>:

> Hi César
>
> Don’t be surprised when you see NDN implementation is slower than IP
> implementation.
> NGINX and other major HTTPS servers have been optimized by many big
> companies for many years. IP routers are also optimized with “line speed
> forwarding” as a requirement.
> ndnpoke and ndnputchunks and their corresponding consumer programs are
> written by about three grad students. NFD is explicitly “not optimized for
> performance” as claimed in NFD Developer Guide introduction section.
> Try to hand write a HTTPS server (without using any TLS libraries) and a
> software IP router (forward packets between libpcap handles), and you’ll
> see how slow they would be.
>
> Yours, Junxiao
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 05:56 César A. Bernardini <mesarpe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I executed the following experiment: three virtual computers connected in
>> a speed line using NDN. I tried to send a file of 1MB.
>>
>> Using HTTPS, It took me *~0.020/0.30* seconds to retrieve the file
>>
>> Using ndnputchunks/ndncatchunks:
>> with ndnputchunks, it takes always *0.170* to transmit one single file.
>> I tried with the FIXED strategy and the iterative strategy.
>>
>> Somebody else faced the same issue? I have already seen an e-mail of one
>> year ago but there was no interesting information.
>>
>> We are talking about a content delivery architecture that is 400% slower
>> than HTTPS when sending unencrypted traffic.
>>
>> Somebody tried using stream connections? at NDN core?
>>
>> With ndnpoke, sometimes It takes (to send one chunk) ~0.020 seconds and
>> other times it takes 4.020 seconds. I tried in two different hosts: ESXi
>> and with virtual boxes. With virtualboxes, ndnpoke transmits the whole
>> message. With ESXi it complains that I exceed the 8800 bytes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
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