Simulation analysis of a method to improve data-transmission performance of Nanshan 26 m Radio Telescope based on Software-Defined Networks

摘要

Data Center of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory(XAO-DC)commenced operating in 2015,and provides services including archiving,releasing and retrieving precious astronomical data collected by the Nanshan 26 m Radio Telescope(NSRT)over the years,and realises the open sharing of astronomical observation data.The observation data from NSRT are transmitted to XAO-DC 100 km away through dedicated fiber for long-term storage.With the continuous increase of data,the static architecture of the current network cannot meet NSRT data-transmission requirements due to limited network bandwidth.To get high-speed data-transmission using the existing static network architecture,a method for reconstruction data-transmission network using Software-Defined Networks(SDN)is proposed.Benefit from the SDN’s data and control plane separation,and open programmable,combined with the Mininet simulation platform for experiments,the TCP throughput(of single thread)was improved by~24.7%,the TCP throughput(of multi threads)was improved by~9.8%,~40.9%,~35.5%and~11.7%.Compared with the current network architecture,the Latency was reduced by~63.2%.