TCP is Harmful to In-Network Computing: Designing a Message-Oriented Transport Protocol

This paper presents the motivation and design of MTP, a new offload-friendly message transport protocol. Existing transport protocols like TCP, MPTCP, and UDP/Quic all have key limitations when used in a network that may potentially offload computation from end-servers into NICs, switches, and other network devices. To enable important new in-network computing use cases and correct congestion control in the face of ever changing network paths and application replicas, MTP introduces a new message transport protocol design and pathlet congestion control, a new approach where end-hosts explicitly communicate messaging information to network devices and network devices explicitly communicate network path and congestion information back to end-hosts.
Brent Stephens (University of Utah), Darius Grassi (University of Illinois at Chicago), Hamidreza Almasi (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tao Ji (UT Austin), Balajee Vamanan (University of Illinois at Chicago), Aditya Akella (UT Austin),
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